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You can probably tell by now I'm no graphics expert! I appreciate your help. Are you saying that regardless what command-line specification I set, if the image has no basic color in it but black, that it is going to come out as Grayscale? If so, then setting specifications is the real issue. For my ...

I am asking if upgrading would help to resolve the problem I originally posted. No matter what specs I try, I cannot find a way to produce a 256 color jpg from a Bilevel, RGB, 8-bit depth .bmp image. The Type and Base Type always come out as Grayscale in the resulting jpg file. I am using Mogrify ...

That is interesting. When I save the bmp as 256-color bmp, and run -identify against the resulting file, it shows Type and Base Type as "Bilevel", which is the reason I added that specification. I am hesitant to upgrade because we have other processes using the current version. Would an upgrade help?

Using 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, and ImageMagick 6.6.9-Q16 Using the command-line tool with this statement: mogrify -format jpg -colors 256 -type Bilevel [filename].bmp The original colorspace is RGB. Original depth is 8. These values are retained when the image is converted. I have ...