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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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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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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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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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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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