BMP Formats

LEADTOOLS reads and writes the following BMP formats:

image\sqrblit.gif Windows Bitmap (BMP). This is a file format created by Microsoft. Some BMP images are compressed with an RLE-type compression.

image\sqrblit.gif OS/2 Bitmap (OS/2 BMP). These are files created on an OS/2 operating system. LEADTOOLS supports both 1.x and 2.x formats.
You can read and write the following bits per pixel, without RLE compression: 1, 4, 8, and 24.
You can read (but not write) the following bits per pixel, with RLE compression: 4, 8.

 

File constants associated with these file formats are:

Constant

Read Support

Write Support

Description

FILE_BMP

1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 BPP

1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 BPP

[6] Windows BMP, with no compression.

FILE_BMP_RLE

4, 8 BPP

4, 8 BPP

[84] Windows BMP, with RLE compression.

FILE_OS2

1, 4, 8, 24 BPP

1, 4, 8, 24 BPP

[14] OS/2 BMP version 1.x.

FILE_OS2_2

1, 4, 8, 24 BPP

1, 4, 8, 24 BPP

[74] OS/2 BMP version 2.x.

Required DLL: LFBMP. For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

Related Formats: PBM - Portable Bitmap Utilities Format, PCX - PCX Format, WBMP - Wireless Bitmap Format, XPM - XPicMap, XBM - XBitMap Format.