I haven't use paletted images for awhile, but with paint shop pro you can edit
the palette and read what colors are assigned to which index.  You can even load
a palette you would like to use.  It'll save PNG images to 256 colors too.

demoville is www.jasc.com

-Mike

John M. Dlugosz wrote:

> <flame>
> Why can't Photoshop get PNG files right?  Not only does it seem to have no
> way to view my palette when I'm editing a "indexed color" image, but when I
> save as PNG, it saves as a 8-bit/sample RGB file!  Isn't that kind of
> missing the point?!
> </flame>
>
> What tool (running under Windows NT) can I use to find out what palette I
> ended up with in a GIF file?  That is, I need to know which color index is
> which RGB value, so I can set up my "transmit" modifiers properly in the
> image_map statement.
>
> Better yet, how can I put them in the order I want in the first place, so I
> don't have to re-do it every time I edit the file?
>
> Do I need to write a BMP/TGA to PNG converter that takes an optional palette
> file as input to guide the conversion, or does something like that already
> exist?
>
> --John

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