BMP Tags

There really isn't much meta information in a BMP file as such, just a bit of image related information.

IndexTag Name WritableValues / Notes
4 ImageWidth N  
8 ImageHeight N  
12 Planes N  
14 BitDepth N  
16 Compression N 0 = None
1 = 8-Bit RLE
2 = 4-Bit RLE
3 = Bitfields
4 = JPEG
5 = PNG
20 ImageLength N  
24 PixelsPerMeterX N  
28 PixelsPerMeterY N  
32 NumColors N  
36 NumImportantColors N  
(This document generated automatically by Image::ExifTool::BuildTagLookup)
Last revised Sep 29, 2006

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