RasterEdge .NET Imaging SDK provides a powerful solution for Bitmap image processing. Customer may easily export and import from DIB, hBitmap, or GDI+ Bitmap, and convert bitmap images to other image file formats.
What is Bitmap?
Developed as a raster graphics image file format, BMP (full name: Bitmap) is the standard image file format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. BMP can be divided into two types: Device Dependent Bitmap (DDB) file format and Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) file format. DDB is mainly used in the early Windows OS (Windows 3.0 and early versions). However, due to it limitation, Microsoft creates a new format - DIB to define device-independent bitmaps in various color resolutions.
The BMP file format is very common format used by many 2D applications for storing 2D digital image of arbitrary width, height, and resolution. Various color depths, 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, and 24-bit are provided for BMP images. Data compression and color profiles may also supported by BMP images.
Bitmap Features
Advantages
- 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, and 24-bit color depth support
- Indexed color support
- Optional color table (palette)
- Free patent license
- Supported by image software running on Windows
- Used by many 2D applications
Disadvantages
- Large file size for lack of any compression
- Not support on the web
Note: Bitmap processing and conversion is excluded in the standard RasterEdge .NET Imaging SDK, you may add it on with Bitmap Convertor or .NET Bitmap Convertor SDK
Viewing, Editing and Conversion
- RasterEdge .NET Imaging SDK supports Bitmap file formats, allowing users to view, edit and processing images with JPEG 2000 format and other popular formats, such as Jpeg, Png, Gif, Tiff, PDF, MS-Word, etc.
- Bitmap Converter is a free image conversion toolkit developed by RasterEdge.com, which provides an easy way to convert Bitmap file formats into others, such as Jpeg, Png, Gif, Tiff, PDF, MS-Word, etc. Besides, Visual C# and VB.NET sample codings are provided for image conversion if you want to use it in .NET development environments.
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