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.. _BMP-FI:

BMP-FI Windows or OS/2 Bitmap
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Extensions: ``.bmp``

A BMP format based on the Freeimage library.

This format supports grayscale, RGB and RGBA images.

The freeimage plugin requires a `freeimage` binary. If this binary
not available on the system, it can be downloaded manually from
<https://github.com/imageio/imageio-binaries> by either

- the command line script ``imageio_download_bin freeimage``
- the Python method ``imageio.plugins.freeimage.download()``

Parameters for saving
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compression : bool
    Whether to compress the bitmap using RLE when saving. Default False.
    It seems this does not always work, but who cares, you should use
    PNG anyway.



