Method Image.BMP.encode()
- Method encode
string encode(object image)
string encode(object image, mapping options)
string encode(object image, object colortable)
string encode(object image, int bpp)- Description
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Make a BMP. It default to a 24 bpp BMP file, but if a colortable is given, it will be 8bpp with a palette entry.
option is a mapping that may contain:
"colortable": Image.Colortable - palette "bpp": 1|4|8|24 - force this many bits per pixel "rle": 0|1 - run-length encode (default is 0)
- Parameter image
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Source image.
- Parameter colortable
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Colortable object, shortcut for "colortable" in options.
- Returns
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the encoded image as a string
- Bugs
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Doesn't support old BMP mode, only "windows" mode.
- See also