Microsoft KB Archive/160588

= PUB97: Pictures Turn Black under Windows NT =

Article ID: 160588

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Publisher 97 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

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This article was previously published under Q160588



SYMPTOMS
Under Windows NT, when you dynamically change the color depth of your display from 256 colors to 65,536 colors, some of the bitmaps on the visible page in Microsoft Publisher 97 turn very dark or black.



CAUSE
Publisher 97 does not refresh its display when the color depth of the display changes under Windows NT. Because of this, when the display driver tries to display the bitmap to the screen, it has no color information for the higher color depth, and shows the picture as mostly black.



RESOLUTION
To have the bitmaps appear normally, force Publisher to refresh its display. One way to do this is to press the F9 key twice. You can also change to another page and then change back.



STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 97 pub4 w_mspub mspub dark grayed out frame picture TIF GIF BMP hidden video properties 64K 8-bit hi color high

Keywords: kbprb kbgraphic kbusage KB160588

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