JB>  GE> After I found out I could make PaintShop convert 16-color GIFs
JB>  GE> (screen caps of the whole deck from MS Solitaire) into a sorta
JB>  GE> human-readable format (Adobe's Encapsulated PostScript)

JB> Neat. I never thought of using EPS pixmaps,

I was saving under all the formats, desperately hoping that at least one
would look SOMEhow recognizable/translatable.  I got REAL lucky.

JB> but yeah it's an uncompressed format and thefore easy to read. (once
JB> you figure it out)

Very handy that the colors are saved in hex format (0 to F), with
0=black, 1=blue ...all the way to F=Bright White. Quick INSTR of
"0123456789ABCDEF" in QB, and there's the card on the screen.

JB> FWIW The deck from ms solitaire is in some DLL (I forget which) in
JB> windows format. and a reasonably simple basic prog can probably read
JB> that too.

I just played a few games of Solitaire, did a screen cap with LView
of each "group" of new cards, "cropped" each card out saved it so
Paintshop could re-save it in a different format. Probably would
have taked 50 times longer to do it the "easy" way via the DLL. :)

Too bad John wants to use a fancy deck that needs more than 16 colors.
That's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay past my programming level.

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