Re: [avr-chat] Storing B&W bitmap images into Flash : file format suggestion ?

[David Kelly]

On Jan 9, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> I would like to display a full screen "welcome" picture at start-up,
> but I don't have any experience with storing and displaying
> bitmap graphics yet, so I am in learning mode... I guess I will have a
> few questions in the coming days on how to stuff that binary file into
> Flash, and then read it to display it, but for now my first question is:
> 
> - What's the usual/easiest file format that people use, to store 1-bit
> (black and white) bitmap images/pictures ?

You stay mainly in Linux so I would research ImageMagick and Gimp for formats 
they support. I know there are utilities which produce raw bit images. An SGI 
login icon was a pure 24 bit 100x100 bit image. This sort of thing was common 
in X11 at one time. Perhaps still?

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