The enclosed GIF should show the problem. I have the foreground of a face set to turquoise, but the face shows up in a dark red. I know I have turquoise in my colormap, because the sample next to the Foreground line is turquoise. This happens with or without a private colormap. ------------------------------ attachments ------------------------------ Multipart/Mixed 2/ 1 Text/Plain(guess) CoverPage* B 2 Image/Gif face-problem.gif face-problem.gif 3 . --------0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9----------------------------------------------