Image::...ol::BMP(3)

💖 Image::...ol::BMP(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for Image::...ol::BMP — yes that's literally what the header says, the man page title got a lil truncated, it's giving "she's mysterious, she's enigmatic" ✨ it's the BMP part of Image::ExifTool, and she is so important, no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::BMP — Read BMP meta information 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she's lowkey a behind-the-scenes queen 👑 you don't call her directly, Image::ExifTool does, and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, this module contains the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs in order to read BMP (Windows Bitmap) images 🖼️

it's the plug-in brain cell for BMP files, fr fr. that's her whole job and she ate 💅

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com) 🫶

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

shoutout Phil, absolute legend, 2003 to 2026 and still going?? main character energy fr 😭💖

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🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

the receipts, the sources, the lore 📚✨

• <http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/windows/364/bmpffrmt.html>
• <http://www.fourcc.org/rgb.php>
• <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd183381(v=vs.85).aspx>

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• "BMP Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

go read those next bestie, they're the sequel, the cinematic universe 🌟

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