What Is the Bitmap Graphics Format?
The Bitmap format (a standard Windows graphics format used in Clipboard and disk file representations of graphs; file name extension *.bmp) is similar to the metafile format (see above). Specifically, it stores only a representation of the picture and not the data that are plotted or any information about the analytic properties or settings used to produce the graph. However, unlike the metafile format, the bitmap format stores only a “passive” representation of pixels that form the graph. This representation is less customizable than metafiles that store dynamic representations of all individual graph components, thus allowing selective modifications of lines, text, etc., in other Windows applications. Bitmaps can be opened by other Windows applications, but the customization or editing options of such graph representations will be limited (typically to operations on pixels, such as stretching and shrinking, cutting and pasting, and drawing “over” the graph). As mentioned before, for
The Bitmap format (one of two standard Windows graphics formats used in Clipboard and disk file representations of graphs; file name extension *.bmp) is similar to another standard Windows graph format–metafile (see above), in that it stores only the representation of the picture (and not the data which are plotted or any information about the analytic properties or settings used to produce the graph). However, unlike the metafile format, the bitmap format stores only a “passive” representation of pixels which form the graph. This representation is thus less customizable than Metafiles which store dynamic representations of all individual graph components, thus allowing selective modifications of lines, text, etc., in other Windows applications. Bitmaps can be opened by other Windows applications, but the customization or editing options of such graph representations will be limited (typically to operations on pixels, such as stretching and shrinking, cutting and pasting, and drawing
