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When I try to convert a PNG file (completely black, but as RGB 24bit)
I always get a JPG in grayscale:

my command line:

convert test.PNG -type TrueColor test.JPG

I also tried:
convert test.PNG -colorspace RGB test.JPG

IM 6.3.5 Q16 on WinXP / WinXP64


The verbose line:

test.png=>Z:\test.jpg PNG 4096x4096 4096x4096+0+0 DirectClass 8-bit 64.1563kb 1.188u 0:02

Is this a bug, or am I to stupid to figure out the right options for the conversion?

No IM is just trying to be 'smart'. Perhaps too smart when a -type has been defined!

.. and is there a way to bring IM to do what I want ?

We include logic to produce a JPEG RGB image type when the -type option is used but we had an extraneous break statement probably due to a cut-n-paste error that prevented the code from being exercised. The problem is fixed in ImageMagick 6.3.5-4 Beta available sometime tommorrow.