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SUMMARY
In the Microsoft Windows graphical environment, a display driver can
generally define its own color bitmap format based on the particular
hardware it supports. However, a display driver cannot define its own
monochrome bitmap format. The Windows graphics device interface (GDI)
defines the monochrome bitmap format as follows: each byte contains 8
pixels with the most significant bit representing the left-most pixel.
For example, to activate the pixel at the upper-left corner of the
bitmap, set bit 7 of the first bitmap byte to 1.
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The main reason that the monochrome bitmap format cannot be redefined
is to enforce a common standard across all devices. Windows can render
a bitmap in this format on any display or any raster printer device.
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