8 bit depth working?

[Sesshomurai]

Hi,
I'm doing a convert from .pdf to .tiff and I specify -depth 8 but when Ioad the resulting tiff in GIMP, it says its 16 bit.
What am I missing?

thank you!

[magick]

What does ImageMagick say. Try

• convert image.pdf -depth 8 image.tif
  identify -verbose image.tif

We tried this sequence and it reported 8-bit depth as expected. We're using ImageMagick 6.5.4-0.

[fmw42]

what is your complete command line?

what version of IM?

what do you get from

identify -verbose image.tif

[Sesshomurai]

Hey guys,
Thanks for the speedy response. awesome. Here is my command

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convert doc.pdf -depth 8 -define quantum:format=unsigned -type grayscale out.tif

Using ImageMagick 6.3.7 02/19/08

Looks from the identify call it reports 8-bit. Not sure why GIMP thinks its 16, guess I should ask over on their forums! Hehe.

Thanks again.