Big (but compliant) BMP-images (indexed 100k) cannot be opened in GIMP
GIMP version: 2.10.20 win64
Big BMP-images (over 100k pixels in height) cannot be opened in GIMP. But if this image will be saved as TIF in another graphical editor, it can easily may be opened and editeg in GIMP.
Image type: unpacked BMP/TIF,
file size: 1200MB/1200MB
image height: 186394 pixels
image width: 6637 pixels
image colorspace: 8 bit with palette
image DPI: 600
GIMP memory consumpton in case of succesfully opening this TIF: ~16GB
GIMP error in case of opening this BMP: Image %% is not correct BMP file
But GIMP can export this image to BMP !!! And can not load it back from BMP. See attached samples. my_test_image.7z
Edited by Buranovsky Dedushka