CMYK separation problem - old bug?

[pipe]

I ran in to a problem when trying to separate CMYK channels, I'm not 100% sure it's actually a bug, but the behaviour is off.

It has been mentioned about a year ago by Anthony: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20729#p83381

The main issue is this:

convert rose: -colorspace CMYK -separate +append roses.png

The K-channel shows up, well.. not very black, rater very much like a rainbow. If it is not a bug, how do I prevent it? That is, I want the black channel actually black, not in color.

Additionally, I found a difference when previewing the images with x: and show:. The latter seems pretty broken but works fine in RGB. I don't know what the difference is between show: and x:. I made a visual summary:

pipe@spacelab:~$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.5-5 2013-05-03 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC OpenCL OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr lzma openexr pango png ps rsvg tiff x xml zlib

[snibgo]

Confirmed for 6.8.5-0 on Windows. Eek. Previous versions, eg v6.8.4-6, made K monochrome. It seems to be a recent bug.

[magick]

We can reproduce the problem you posted and have a patch in ImageMagick 6.8.5-5 Beta available by sometime tomorrow. Thanks.