Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I found a workaround- convert 0.png PNG32:0.png convert 0.png 0.bmp produces a functional bmp (renders/opens on osx, including the bespoke software I had that only accepted a rigid bmp format). I think the problem was that the png was considered grayscale + alpha. so the "real" bug here is: "convert ...

hmm... I now see that chrome correctly renders the bmp in chrome when served from my web site. but if I save-as that image to my desktop, OSX refuses to open it.

the most basic conversion of a simple png image to a bmp results in an image osx refuses to open (in preview, pixelmator, etc...). also, some hack software I wrote a while ago fails to open it, thinking it's a bmp v4 (it only accepts bmp v5) (this pipeline used to work on older versions of ...