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I'm trying to create windows XP wallpaper compatible BMP.
After some research I supposed that this would work:

convert wallpaper.png -format BMP2 wallpaper.bmp

but the output is the same as

convert wallpaper.png wallpaper.bmp

I'm sure I need BMP2 format and both commands are giving BMP3+

Any suggestion will be appreciated, thanks.

I'm not sure what effect, if any, the -format option has on 'convert'. Try
convert wallpaper.png BMP3:wallpaper.bmp

Jason S wrote:I'm not sure what effect, if any, the -format option has on 'convert'. Try
convert wallpaper.png BMP3:wallpaper.bmp

That worked perfectly, now I can see my command was giving me BMP4 and I needed BMP3 or BMP2.

It's weird that this is not document or it is very hidden in the documentation.

Thanks.

It's weird that this is not document or it is very hidden in the documentation.

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#bmp

fmw42 wrote:

It's weird that this is not document or it is very hidden in the documentation.

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#bmp

Nice, I thought the new docs had more complete info than the old docs, guess I was wrong, thanks.