Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I had tried using "-alpha off" without success but I didn't have it just before the output filename. The double hyphen on compress was a typo, it was never in my command line. Working as expected now, thanks!

When I add text to a tiff image using draw or annotate an extra channel is created in the output image. Is there anyway to add text to a tiff without doing so? Here's how I'm adding the text and a screenshot of the image properties as reported by Irfanview. Image on the left is the original and the ...