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But there are lots of BMP versions - wiki says "Many different versions of some of these structures can appear in the file, due to the long evolution of this fi

by ape4 4y ago

But there are lots of BMP versions - wiki says "Many different versions of some of these structures can appear in the file, due to the long evolution of this file format."

Retr0id 4y ago
Exactly. It is easy to write a BMP reader, but if you want to read any BMP file that you might find in the wild then you're going to have a fun time.
- duskwuff 4y ago
  There's even some very niche extensions to BMP which allow it to be used as a container for PNG or JPEG data. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/gdi/jpeg-and-png-extensions-for-specific-bitmap-functions-and-structures https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/gdi/jpeg-and...