Format
Windows Bitmap
Summary
- Name
- Windows Bitmap
- Version
- 5.0
- Identifiers
-
- Apple Uniform Type Identifier: com.microsoft.bmp
- PUID: fmt/119
- MIME: image/bmp
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
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- Format encoding
- Binary
- File extensions
-
bmp,dib - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Is subsequent version of
Internal signatures
Windows Bitmap 5.0
- Description
- BITMAPFILEHEADER + BITMAPV5HEADER structures
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- None
- Byte Sequence
424D{4}00000000{4}7C000000{8}0100(01|04|08|10|18|20)00(00|01|02|03|04|05)000000- Endianness
- Little-endian
Changelog
-
V110
- Release date
- 14 March 2023
-
Added signature
Windows Bitmap 5.0: Signature researched and samples provided by GoldFynch eDiscovery.
-
Updated
Windows Bitmap 5.0: Last pair of zeros removed from signature. Submitted by GoldFynch eDiscovery.