Portable Document Format or PDF files are documents that have been converted from printable source material, such as Microsoft Word or Excel files. PDF documents may be color or grayscale. PDF files ...

Today’s problem sent in by Ben is as old as the hills, and while many people know of the fix, many don’t (at Ars we have a rule: if more than 10 people ask, answer it). So without further ado, let’s ...

Developing apps for the Android platform allows you to handle various media types users have on mobile devices, including image files. With a few additions to the Java code for an Android app, you can ...

Once you start the application, you will see a screen that looks like Figure 1. Click the Open button, and you will see a window like in Figure 2. Start by opening a bitmap. The bitmap must be 256 by ...

BMP (Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap) Supports color-mapped and true color images that are stored as uncompressed or run-length encoded data. BMP was developed by Microsoft Corporation.

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...