BMP 5.0

Writable

image · also known as BMP (5.0)

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Identify it

Extensions	`.bmp.rle.dib`
MIME types	`image/bmp`
Signatures	`424d` at byte 0 (Windows Bitmap 5.0)
PRONOM	`fmt/116fmt/115fmt/117fmt/118fmt/119fmt/114x-fmt/25x-fmt/270`
Wikidata	`Q192869Q27596417`
Library of Congress	`fdd000189`
Apple UTI	`com.microsoft.bmp`

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Open it

3DSlicerOpen sourcereads and writes · BSD licenses
AvogadroOpen sourcewrites · 3-clause BSD License
Bad PeggyOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
bmp-jsOpen sourcereads and writes · MIT License
Classic ColorsOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
DendroscopeOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
DevILOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
digiKamOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
GD Graphics LibraryOpen sourcewrites · BSD licenses
GDALOpen sourcereads and writes · MIT License
GIMPOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
ImageMagick (WebAssembly)Open sourcereads and writes · Apache-2.0
InVesaliusOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 / GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.0 or later
KmPlotOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
LibreOffice DrawOpen sourcereads and writes · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
PhpThumbOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
Q141647655Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Q6861478Open sourcewrites · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
ShotwellOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later
SimThyrOpen sourcewrites · BSD licenses
SVG-editOpen sourcewrites · MIT License
Visualization LibraryOpen sourcereads and writes · BSD licenses
Visualization ToolkitOpen sourcereads and writes · 3-clause BSD License
AbydosOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
AndroidOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0 / GNU General Public License, version 2.0
Apache TikaOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0
ArchivistaOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
AudiverisOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Bio-Formats LibraryOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
CinePaintOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
ConverseenOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
DearkOpen sourcereads · MIT License
ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
Ginkgo CADxOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
GodotOpen sourcereads · MIT License
GQViewOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
imageioOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
Insight Segmentation and Registration ToolkitOpen sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0
KolourPaintOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses

And 256 more in the JSON record.

Convert it

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To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
PNG	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.bmp out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PNG	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Quite OK Image Format	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
TIFF	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.bmp out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
TIFF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PDF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Partial	in browser The image is embedded in a PDF page.
AVIF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.bmp out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Reduced to 256 colours.
ICO	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Icons are limited to 256 × 256 pixels.
JFIF 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.bmp out.jpg` Lossy compression.
JFIF 1.02	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
JPEG XL	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.bmp out.webp` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.

Versions and variants (7)

OS/2 Bitmap 1.0Readable
Windows DDB 1.0Readable
OS/2 Bitmap 2.0Partly documented
Windows Bitmap 2.0Readable
Windows Bitmap 3.0Readable
Windows Bitmap 3.0 NTPartly documented
Windows Bitmap 4.0Partly documented

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), WebAssembly engines (ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Pandoc, 7-Zip, GDAL, Assimp, resvg), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-26.

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