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ape4
on Jan 18, 2023
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Hello, PNG
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
on Jan 18, 2023
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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
on Jan 18, 2023
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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...
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