BMP Files

These are some examples of BMP files. The BMP file is a bitmap image format developed by Microsoft and commonly used in the Windows operating system for storing icons.

BMP files are:

• BINARY
• Color
• 2D
• No compression
• 1 image

Reference:

Programs to view a BMP file include:

• GIMP
• The ImageVision program imgview can display a BMP file.
• The Macintosh program JPEGVIEW can display a BMP file.
• Microsoft WORD
• XV

Routines to read a BMP file:

• The AVS module read_any_image can read a BMP file.
• BMP_IO.

Routines to write a BMP file:

• BMP_IO.

Programs to convert a BMP file to another format:

• BMP_2_PPMA converts a BMP file to an ASCII PPM file.
BMP_2_PPMB converts a BMP file to a binary PPM file.
• GIMP converts a BMP file to any of the formats supported by GIMP.
• XV can read a BMP file, and convert it to FITS, GIF, JPG, PBM/PGM/PPM, RGB or TIF format.

Programs to convert a file to BMP format:

• GIMP can save an image file in BMP format.
• PPM_2_BMP converts a PPM file to BMP format.
• XV can read a variety of file formats, and save them to BMP format.

Files you may copy:

• blackbuck.bmp;
• snail.bmp;
• test.bmp;

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