wrong BMP files?

[Marcin P]

When you build a 24-bit BMP file (without compression), its size should be:
width*height*bitperpixel+54bytes (54 bytes from file and bitmap headers).

When I create BMP files in MS Paint in "non-standard" dimensions
(different than 1024x768 or 512x384) sizes of files are bigger than they
sholud be.
When dimensions are standard everything is OK.

Example from Paint:
white picture->173x14->save as 24bit BMP...
and size written in bitmapfileheader is 7334 bytes... but it should be
173*14*3+54=7320. The difference is 14 bytes. Why?

When dimensions are 100x100 or 1024x768 - everything is OK.

 

[Jakob Bieling]

When you build a 24-bit BMP file (without compression), its size
should be: width*height*bitperpixel+54bytes (54 bytes from file and
bitmap headers).
When I create BMP files in MS Paint in "non-standard" dimensions
(different than 1024x768 or 512x384) sizes of files are bigger than
they sholud be.
When dimensions are standard everything is OK.

Example from Paint:
white picture->173x14->save as 24bit BMP...
and size written in bitmapfileheader is 7334 bytes... but it should be
173*14*3+54=7320. The difference is 14 bytes. Why?

When dimensions are 100x100 or 1024x768 - everything is OK.

In bitmaps, each scanline (ie row of pixels) must be dword aligned.
To achieve that, padding is added, if neccessary. i you have 173 pixels
in widthwith 3 bytes per pixel, you have a total of 519 bytes per
scanline. Now the next dword boundary is 520, so you have to add1
padding byte. Do that for all 14 scanlines and you have the difference
of 14 bytes.

hth