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Posted by: asavage May 20 2007, 04:42 PM

I have an application that ships with 4,000 files with the filename extension of BMP. PMV 3.40 (OS/2 and Win) is unable to open them. I assume they are not any normal format. See attached file.

060127_A.BMP ( 6.15K ) : 3

Posted by: Peter May 20 2007, 06:54 PM

QUOTE (asavage @ May 20 2007, 05:42 PM)

I have an application that ships with 4,000 files with the filename extension of BMP. PMV 3.40 (OS/2 and Win) is unable to open them. I assume they are not any normal format. See attached file.

Do you have any idea what they are? My gut react is that it's a proprietary bitmap format that is not even remotely related to the Windows or OS/2 bitmap standard...

It's very easy to slap on the extension .BMP

Peter

Posted by: asavage May 23 2007, 10:37 PM

QUOTE (Peter @ May 20 2007, 06:54 PM)

Do you have any idea what they are? My gut react is that it's a proprietary bitmap format that is not even remotely related to the Windows or OS/2 bitmap standard...

Yes, they are just that. A Nissan parts lookup application for Windoze.

http://asavage.dyndns.org/Nissan/Maxima/FAST/Cam_Valves_01b.jpg

They are probably metafiles, because areas on the images are "clickable" for the application to select; I'm guessing there is much non-image info in each file.

There are lots and lots of them, and I'd prefer to not perform a screen capture every time I need to reference one, which happens once or twice a week.

Posted by: asavage Jun 16 2007, 09:09 PM

QUOTE (asavage @ May 23 2007, 10:37 PM)

There are lots and lots of them, and I'd prefer to not perform a screen capture every time I need to reference one, which happens once or twice a week.

So, am I out of luck on this one?

Posted by: Peter Jun 19 2007, 02:56 PM

QUOTE (asavage @ Jun 16 2007, 10:09 PM)

So, am I out of luck on this one?

I guess so. It appears it's not a standard windows metafile either...