While we are at it
what on earth was the .bmp evolved into being for? Just out out of curiosity?
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Jahled Three shades of black,
Sun 2 Mar 2008, 0:25,
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You have to store the image uncompressed at some point
and BMP is the format Microsoft came up with for that (or more likely bought or stole it from someone else).
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Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars,
Sun 2 Mar 2008, 0:31,
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