JAI API question

[steve]

Is this not how one would create a Rendered Image from a BMP:

FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(f);
BMPImageDecoder theBMPImageDecoder = new BMPImageDecoder(in,null);
theRenderedImage = theBMPImageDecoder.decodeAsRenderedImage(0);
in.close();

I get the following error:

java.lang.RuntimeException: Error while reading the BMP file.
at
com.mactiveinc.image.adbase.codec.BMPImage.read8Bit(BMPImageDecoder.java:646
)
at
com.mactiveinc.image.adbase.codec.BMPImage.computeTile(BMPImageDecoder.java:
1169)
at
com.mactiveinc.image.adbase.codec.BMPImage.getTile(BMPImageDecoder.java:1257
)
.
.
.

thanks for any help

Steve