DEVICE INDEPENDENT BITMAP
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(DIB) An image format in which thesequence and depth of pixels in the file is not specificallyrelated to their layout in any particular device. This allowsany device dependent bitmap (DDB) image to be converted to orDIB format without loss of information, and this can thenlater be converted to other DDB formats for, e.g., printing ordisplay. Rather than requiring converters from each DDBformat to all other formats, only converters to and from DIBare needed.DIB images are normally transferred in metafiles, bmpfiles, and the clipboard.Transferring colour bitmaps from one device to another was notpossible in versions of Microsoft Windows earlier than 3.0.Application programs can build DIB images without anyinteraction with Windows. If Windows lacks a drawingprimitive, the application can simulate it directly into theDIB instead of using the existing graphics device interface(GDI) primitives. Unfortunately, under Windows versions 3.0and 3.1, GDI cannot perform output operations directly to aDIB.Conversion between DIB and DDB is performed by the devicedriver. Where the driver does not have this facility, theconversion is performed by GDI but only in monochrome. DIBsare slower to use than device dependent bitmaps due to theconversions required.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.