Format
Windows Bitmap
Summary
- Name
- Windows Bitmap
- Version
- 3.0
- Identifiers
-
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.microsoft.bmp
- PUID: fmt/116
- MIME: image/bmp
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
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- File extensions
-
dib,bmp - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Is previous version of
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
Windows Bitmap 3.0
- Note
- BITMAPFILEHEADER + BITMAPINFOHEADER structures
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
424D{12}28000000{8}0100(01|04|08|10|18|20)00(00|01|02)000000- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V107
- Release date
- 21 July 2022
Windows Bitmap (3.0): Broadened signature. Submitted by The National Library of Australia.
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Updated in V101
- Release date
- 15 February 2022
Windows Bitmap (Signature 3.0): Added the possibility of '10' at byte 28. Submitted by The National Library of Australia.
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Updated in V84
- Release date
- 21 January 2016
Windows Bitmap 3.0: Updated signature based on observations by National Library of New Zealand.