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

[Juergen Harms]

For image development and storage on the host I would stick to Gimp - 
the list of formats that Gimp can produce / import reads like a 
who's-who of available formats. Gimp claims that it also can produce 
C-code (I never had a look at that and do not know what that precisely 
means, but I would guess that it allows to directly import a bitmap into 
the source code of your application). You may, though, need to specify 
what formats you want Gimp to specifically support when you install Gimp.

In case your display is an eDIP 240, I have a library for driving the 
device from an AVR (SPI) which might help you (my driver is for a GUI 
control application though; I never tried bitmaps, but that should not 
make much difference).