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PD >>screenmode set to 16 colors although I know that Palette under OS3.1 will only show 8 colors. How then can ViewTek, using the same datatype show the picture correctly and WBPattern show the same picture incorrectly? << The answer can be quite simple. ViewTek, displays the IFF pictures on a separate screen. A screen that can have any 16 colors for the screen's (thus the pic's) palette. WBPattern, displays the IFF on the same screen as WB, but the WB screen already has reserved upto 8 colors for its own use. If you open a 16 color WB Screen, this re-stricts WBPattern to an editable palette of only 8 colors plus the 8 colors locked by the WB. If a 16 color picture's palette only shared 1 color with the WB's 8 color palette, then only 9 colors of that picture could be displayed accurately. The WB would either have to ignore the remaining 7 WB colors (rendering the pic's 16 colors into a 9 color pic), or try to use the remaining WB colors and cross matching as close as possible (re-rendering some of the pics colors to match the WB' palette.) If you had an AGA Amiga, or graphics card, I would suggest a 32 color WB Screen to allow the 8 WB colors plus up to 24 free floating colors for the WBPattern's use in displaying pics. Ron. – ("I'm not stupid, I'm not expendable, and I'm not going!" – quote made by any low level RPG player.)