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Outstanding fmw42, many thanks for your help and patience.

And adding the -colors 256 gave me 8-bit depth result too.

http://www58.zippyshare.com/i/74016621/18/04560.BMP http://www58.zippyshare.com/i/22661022/18/04570.BMP http://www58.zippyshare.com/i/67765013/21244/comp.bmp I can't believe image hosters are such a pita, most want to conver to another format ffs. The original three links just download for me with ...

I think, in fairness, the lesser of my issues is IM ouputting the bmp at the correct depth. If the resulting image is correct, I can use something else to change the depth. Just figured IM would do it.

Tried both of those before too. -depth 8 -colors 256 .. together, seperately, they don't appear to make any difference. I notice if I use the convert(.exe) command, it favors 32 bit bmp and composite(.exe) favors 24 bit. Neither of which appear to change the output files' bit depth with the -depth ...

I've tried something akin to that, but I tried your submission, and you end up with a 32bit bmp file, dimensions of the in1.bmp and the black background of in1.bmp still exists. For example, this is a pot http://www.datafilehost.com/d/f02a4c81 .. and this is a blue flame http://www.datafilehost.com ...

Afternoon, I'm doing my best to fumble around the wiki and so forth to get ImageMagick to do a job for me. In a round about way I'm getting there, but whilst I'm fumbling around, I'd prefer if an expert user read what I'm trying to do - and more or less says "you can do this in one line" or ...