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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Which older DTP software has exported these bitmaps? [closed]
There's a lot of such full-page bitmaps (sample 1, sample 2, sample 3) floating around the data-entry market. Apparently the software that generated these can export the bitmaps, but not the text, ...
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Extract bitmaps from Win98 SOL.EXE
I installed Windows 98 in a Virtualbox with the games. Then I sent myself the game Solitaire (SOL.EXE). Now I have SOL.EXE on Windows 7 and it actually runs. But I just wanted to extract the bitmaps ...
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Send bitmap screen output directly to a file
The question Set an HTML page as the wallpaper on Linux got me thinking... is there a way to open an application so that the raster output which would otherwise be displayed on the screen is rendered ...
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Using BMP format for lossless/high quality?
I've heard bitmap (.bmp) is an uncompressed image format to store images. Does it mean that it can store images in high quality i.e. with no loss of quality in other words, lossless format?
I'm ...
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Inkscape: Turning a bitmap png image into a svg object
I am using Inkscape to try and trace a bitmap image into an svg object. I have used Trace Bitmap as explained here:
https://superuser.com/a/79221/84604
But now I don't know how to separate the ...
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How to check which SysRq functions are enabled?
The file /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq contains a single number, such as:
1 (enable all SysRq commands),
0 (disable all),
or a base-10 positive integer which functions as a binary bitmask, enabling a subset ...
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How do "file headers", "bit maps" and "inodes" come into the picture when managing filesystems?
I'm a little confused on how these terms are thrown around in a book that I am reading.
Are they all different terms that refer to the same concept, or are they slightly different implementations ...
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How to stretch an image in one dimension?
The title says much, but I'll explain in detail a little more.
I need to stretch an image in one dimension only. That is, if the image is for example, 100x100 (Width x Height) I need it to be 100x104 ...
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How to test if a bitmap file has a transparent background?
I created a bitmap with transparent background but in the Windows Picture Viewer I see the white background and even if I reopen it in Photoshop CS3. how do I make sure the white colour in bitmap is ...
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Looking for "bitmap-vector" image editor [closed]
I used to use PhotoImpact which is no longer developed so I'm looking for a replacement. What made PhotoImpact great to me was the ability to work in both bitmap and vector modes.
What I mean by that:...
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Convert dwg file into a high resolution bitmap
I'm trying to convert an autocad drawing into a bitmap, that has better resolution than a simple screen capture.
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Save and restore multiple layers within a Photoshop action that flattens
I'm editing comic pages with layers - "background", "foreground", "lineart" and "over lineart".
I have a Photoshop action that includes a Mode->Bitmap command, which requires the image to be ...
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Image Resizing by Slicing
A while ago I read an excellent treatise on resizing images without visible aspect distortion, using an intelligent slicing algorithm. I even found a Gimp plugin to do this, but I have completely ...
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How to convert poor quality bitmap image to vector?
I'm designing a website for a group which has lost the original digital image for their logo. The only file they have of it is a jpg which was embedded into a word document. The image has everything ...
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Convert color photos of documents to good black-and-white (bitonal) images?
Since I don't have a copier or scanner, I'm using an 8 megapixel camera to copy documents. This works pretty well except they need a lot of processing afterward. I'd like to get from a photo to a ...
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How can I identify fonts from an image? [closed]
Many times I come across bitmaps with nothing but text paragraphs, so I was looking for a way to identify the font used, the paragraph alignment, line spacing and color, bold, italics.
Would an OCR ...
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