Re: [Plib-devel] Importers/Exporters

[Wolfram K. <w_...@rz...>]

Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...> wrote:

>The documentation for BMP files is so patchy - and there are so
>many weird and wonderful varients with multiple (sometimes
>contradictory) header blocks, that reading BMP files using
>portable code is virtually impossible.
>
>Microsoft - we *love* you!

Absolutely correct.

Also, most *.bmp-files are not compressed at all, not even by RLE.
So, they are very large. I know that bmps can use RLE-encoding, but
obviously it is not the default or not used by painting-programs.

Bye bye,
Wolfram.