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Topic: Re: GIF -> BMP for pdf
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 57185
From: aandi
Date: 5/29/2002 05:24 PM
Well, it does depend on the BMP format. A very common format is the 256-colour or less BMP. This does not store 24-bit colour data, but is nevertheless comparatively simple to convert to an Indexed PDF colour space.
Also, Microsoft have added new features to BMP such as (!) JPEG compression.
Reading GIFs is a problem. There is little code available publicly to either read GIF files OR to decompress LZW, because of Unisys' patent that they claim on LZW and the right they allege that they have for royalties on any software using these techniques whereever the code comes from.
Still, you may find freestanding image conversion utilities to do this for you.
