BMP-FI Windows or OS/2 Bitmap

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

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.