Questions tagged [bitmaps]
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Decode/convert from monochrome 1-bit bitmap image to PNG from the command line?
I have a binary blob, and I know that it carries bitmap image data, 1-bit depth.
However, I don't know how the bitstream can be decoded; judging from the screenshot from here, which is of a program ...
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Why does a .bmp image have two types of file headers?
I recently opened 2 identical bitmap images in Notepad++
The one header begins with:
'Bmb' and the other with: 'Bm~'
Why is that?
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Colors changing to black when changing from .BMP to .ICO in Windows 10
I would like to create a custom icon for a shortcut (in Windows 10). Several sites like this one suggest first creating a bitmap, and then saving that .bmp with a .ico extension. I follow the ...
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Creating an image from excel spreadsheet data
I have a spreadsheet representing 2D measurement data. Think of each cell's numeric value as a pixel intensity at (x,y) where x is the cell's column and y is the row. I would like to visualize the ...
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Given a printing of a monochrome bitmap image, how can I recover the bitmap?
I have a printout (scan, really) of what was originally a monochrome bitmap image. The pixels are clear enough that I can manually doodle in a reproduction of it in Paint or Gimp or some other image ...
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Can GIMP on Windows use BDF or PCF bitmap fonts?
I'm trying to use copies of the venerable misc-fixed bitmap fonts in a Windows 10 installation of GIMP 2.10.12.
As far as I can tell, they should appear in the list of fonts after placing them in one ...
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Generate bitmap texture from bitmap font and string
I downloaded nice bitmap fonts and I can easily convert them to many other bitmap font formats (.fon,.sfd ...) using FontForge
but I'm missing very basic thing - how to generate actual bitmap image?
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How can I effectively look at images in shell32.dll by simply looking at the raw data and chang how it's rendered?
I'm using this website http://rawpixels.net/
to look at the shell32.dll file and I'm trying to find the right settings to use so I can see the icons within the file.
I know that there should be an ...
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BM Generator for Simplified Chinese
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this (maybe language exchange is worth a shot too?) but I figured I'd give it a go in case somebody knows.
I'm using Bitmap font generator to generate a ...
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How does a GPU know the address of each and every pixel on a screen? If so how does it cope with high resolution images?
I know how bitmaps work and how pixels are used (binary 0 or 1). I am also aware of RGB but the thing I wonder about is how GPUs know the address of each pixel on a high resolution screen and how the ...
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How to force Illustrator to accurately trace the actual pixels?
I’m trying trace and convert a bitmap to a vector image, but I need Illustrator to actually trace the actual pixels, not smooth them out.
I’ve tried various settings with “Live Trace,” but the result ...
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How can I divide a drawing into a unequal size blocks using Paint.NET?
I have a magnificent set of hand drawn rune cards that I wish to scan into a runic encyclopedia of some sort. Each card is 100mm x 80mm, so I could fit 6 per A4 page to scan them. After a little edit, ...
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Creating bitmap fonts with just text editor?
I'd like to design a few icons for my window manager. For this purpose, I'd like to use bitmap fonts such as siji (which is too small for my needs, unfortunately):
But instead of using large software ...
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How to work out bitmap for a hard drive in free allocation
Reading up on wiki on bitmap as a method hard drives use to find out sectors that are available to store data to or not.
Examples are given showing the size of a bit map. with hard drive size and ...
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How to edit the Boot Graphics Resource Table / Edit windows 8 BOOT LOGO? [duplicate]
I want to edit the screen which is displayed when windows 8 (starts) loads (/loading).
As for now it has the Toshiba logo, I want my custom logo or the windows default logo.
I have found that UEFI ...
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