Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks snibgo, Yes, I was aware of the ren command, and have used it to solve my problem. I was showing the second mogrify command to emphasize the fact that the -format switch is applying the right format in each command. There is a difference between file format and file extension... That's why ...

It seems the test1.BMP3 file that is produced is in a valid BMP3 format, so it's just the file extension that is invalid. So, I can do my batch conversion, and then batch rename by doing this: mogrify -format BMP3 test*.png mogrify -format bmp test*.BMP3 But that's going to take twice as long... Is ...

I've got a series of PNG images that I need to convert to BMP version 3. I have a windows app that won't tolerate BMP in version 4. I've read the BMP info and I can successfully use convert to achieve the desired result, but I can't seem to find a way to do the same using mogrify. I've got hundreds ...