BMP Formats

LEADTOOLS reads and writes the following BMP formats:

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

You can read and write the following bits per pixel, without RLE compression: 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32.

You can read and write the following bits per pixel, with RLE compression: 4, 8.

$image\sqrblit.jpg$ 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, 24.

You can read (but not write) the following bits per pixel, with RLE compression: 4, 8.