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- Network Working Group A. Katz
- Request for Comments: 797 ISI
- September 1981
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- FORMAT FOR BITMAP FILES
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- This note describes a proposed format for storing simple bitmaps (one
- bit per pixel) in a file. These files may be very large and the
- intent is to use this format for short term storage and passing data
- between closely coupled programs. The data in the file should be
- stored in 8-bit bytes (octets). Bitmaps may be any size.
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- The first 4 octets of the file gives the width of each line (x
- direction), and the next 4 octets should give the number of lines of
- the display (length, y direction). After this is one octet for the x
- increment and one octet for the y increment. Following these 10
- octets is the bitmap itself. The length and width fields are
- stored most significant octet first.
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- The x and y increment octets tell how much space is between pixels.
- For an ordinary display, both these would be one.
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- Each line of the display should be scanned from left to right. The
- lines should start at the top and work down. Each line in the bitmap
- should end on an octet boundary. If the width of the display is not
- divisable by 8, the rest of the last octet should be filled with
- zeros on the right.
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- Below is a representation of a bitmap file (each square is one
- octet):
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- ----------------------------------------------------------
- | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
- | width | width | width | width | length |
- ----------------------------------------------------------
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- ----------------------------------------------------------
- | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
- | length | length | length |x-increment|y-increment|
- ----------------------------------------------------------
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- ----------------------------------------------------------
- | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
- | data | data | data | data | data...
- ----------------------------------------------------------
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- For example, bitmaps from the RAPICOM 450 can be in Fine Detail,
- Quality, or Express Mode. In Fine Detail mode the x-increment and
- y-increment would be 1, for Quality mode, the x-increment would be 1
- and the y-increment would be 2, and for Express mode, the x-increment
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- would be 1 and the y-increment would be 3. For these bitmaps it is
- intended that each scan line be repeated y-increment times when they
- are displayed.
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