babj615 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Search bar is returning zero results, and google did me no better... I am having trouble with images saved in 8-bit bmp format from paint.net not rendering properly with software that requires a 'windows format bmp' file. Can anyone help me understand how to save 'windows format bmp' with paint.net? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babj615 Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 Anyone? Anyone? (Bueller?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 What software? Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babj615 Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 GSAK Garmin POI Export. Apparently, the 8-bit bmp files saved from windows paint are different than the 8-bit bmp files paint.net produces. What additional details do you need? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 How wide is your palette? I.e. does the dithering control become enabled when you select 8-bit color depth? Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babj615 Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 How wide is your palette? I.e. does the dithering control become enabled when you select 8-bit color depth? Yes, and I have it set to 0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 the dithering control is only enabled when your image has a palette which is wider than it's possible to hold in the 8-bit format. In other words you have more than 256 colors in your image and the 8-bit can only handle a palette of 256 colors. To 'fake' the extra colors the image is dithered. Scratch that - it shouldn't matter. I suspect that your issue is with the format using or not using RLE (run length encoding) to compress the file. This compression is available with indexed BMPs where each byte is an index into a table of up to 256 colors (i.e. 8-bit). I'm betting your software demands one form (using RLE or not using it) and won't correctly interpret the other format. In Paint.NET there is no option to turn RLE on or off when saving as a BMP. The Low Color Filetype plugin also does not seem to have the option, but it might be worth trying it to see if images saved with it will play nicely with your Garmin software. 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babj615 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 Thank You!!!! The Low Color plugin works perfectly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted August 8, 2013 Share Posted August 8, 2013 Brilliant! Awarding myself one star 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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