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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format BMP description on WikiPedia] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format BMP description on WikiPedia] - Note that it focuses on the OS/2 1.x format and does not include descriptions of any of the improvements included with the OS/2 v2 version of the format. | ||
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Revision as of 19:56, 9 January 2016
BMP is a device independent, two dimensional raster graphics file format introduced with OS/2 v1.0 and later incorporated into Microsoft Windows. The name is simply a shortening of "Bitmap" and not an acronym.
OS/2 Bitmap Format
OS/2 1.x
- Windows 3.0 DIB (Device Independent Bitmap)
OS/2 2.x
- Compression
- Multiple units of length
- Half-toming
- Multiple colour code schemes
- User-defined space
- Structure
- Bitmap Information Structure
- Colour table (required for 24-bit)
- Bitmap Pel Data
Links
- BMP description on WikiPedia - Note that it focuses on the OS/2 1.x format and does not include descriptions of any of the improvements included with the OS/2 v2 version of the format.