Lotus Manuscript graphics

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File Format
Name Lotus Manuscript graphics
Ontology
Extension(s) .bit, .rle
Released ~1986

Lotus Manuscript was a word processor for DOS. It apparently had native .BIT and .RLE raster graphics formats.

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File structure

This section is based on educated guesswork, from observing the behavior of ART2WP and TGL+.

Files have a 9-byte header. Byte order is little-endian.

Offset  Size  Description
------  ----  -----------
0       1     ASCII 'B' for BIT format, 'R' for RLE
1       2     Dots per inch (don't know if x or y)
3       2     Dots per inch
5       2     Height in pixels
7       2     Width in bytes. Multiply by 8 to get width in pixels.
9       var.  Image data

RLE image data uses a simple pixel-oriented format. Each byte encodes a run of white or black pixels. The high bit is the color. The low 7 bits are the number of pixels, with an encoded value of 0 meaning 128.

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