Licensing options for this format begin with FME Desktop Professional Edition.
The Microsoft® Bitmap Reader/Writer module provides FME with access to data in BMP format.
The BMP format was created by Microsoft and IBM® and is therefore very strictly bound to the architecture of the main hardware platform that both companies support: the IBM-compatible PC.
Windows stores bitmapped images in BMP format, which has four types: two under Windows (new and old) and two under OS/2.
Reader Overview
FME considers a single BMP file to be a dataset. The BMP file contains pixel data, and each pixel in the file is a point in a single FME raster feature.
The reader supports reading almost any type of BMP file.
Writer Overview
The writer can write BMP files which are supported on any Windows system. Only single- or three-band files can be saved in BMP file. Input values will be resampled to 8 bit.
FME Raster Features
FME raster features represent raster data and use several concepts that are unlike those used in the handling of vector data. The topics below describe how FME processes raster data.
BMP files can only be written with square pixel dimensions.
BMP supports rasters with a Red8, a Green8, and a Blue8 band. BMP also supports rasters with a single UInt8 band that has a RGB24 palette.