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What does GDI use biXPelsPerMeter and SetBitmapDimensionEx for?

What does GDI use and for? Nothing. The and are completely ignored by GDI when loading a bitmap. The values are there for the benefit of image-editing programs who want to record additional information about the bitmap, but GDI ignores them. Similarly, the and functions update a structure associated with each bitmap, but GDI ...