Brief Introduction of BMP

BMP (Bitmap) is Windows standard image file format. It includes Device-Dependent Bitmaps and Device-Independent Bitmaps. It adopts bit map storage format and the image depth can be selected according to requirements. Because BMP cannot be compressed, it occupies large space. The image depth of BMP includes 1bit, 4bit, 8bit and 24bit. As a standard to exchange data which is about image, BMP can be viewed by any image software in Windows.

Generally speaking, BMP is made up with four parts.

1. Bitmap Header File Data Structure. It includes the type of BMP file, displayed contents and other information.
2. Bitmap Information Data Structure. It includes width, height, colors and so on.
3. Palette. You can choose to use it or not according to the Bitmap type.
4. Bitmap Data. The data is different if the bits used in BMP are different. For example, in 24 bitmaps, you can use RGB directly. But the other which are fewer than 24 bits need to use palette.

How to Convert BMP to PDF

PDF is often used to send digital information via E-mail. And it can be operated on any platform. Therefore, people would like to convert other files to PDF.

Then, I will show the method to convert BMP to PDF  by using Adobe Photoshop.

Firstly, Open the BMP file which you want to convert to PDF with PDF Photoshop. And you can remove text, crop or resize the file to make it be more wonderful.

Secondly, click Save as on File menu. Select save type as *.PDF. Give a new name or use the original name for the file. Click Save. Then, select Encoding type, Zip or JPEG and the PDF Options box appears. Confirm the default type JPEG and click OK. Also, you can set PDF security to protect your file.

Now, the BMP has been converted to PDF. Open the file from the path you save it by using Adobe viewer to read.

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