[Gdal-dev] a question about reading a .bmp image

[Andrey Kiselev]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 08:03:59PM +0100, EloisaNerea at ono.com wrote:
> Hi ?Could you explain me how I can read the information bit by bit of 
> a .bmp image ? 

GDAL data model doesn't support packed bytes. Bilevel BMP files will be
internally converted to the 8 bit representation and two colors will be
coded with 0 and 1 values (or values from the color palette, if file
contains the one). So you can read bilevel BMP file in the same way as
8bit one.

					Andrey

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