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I agree that part of my problem is the program reading it in but you are wrong about the palette not bring the actual issue. If you open up the bmp IN A HEX EDITOR and look at the color palette (it starts at 0x0036) for the default bmp you get three colors, red, green, and blue, and the letters sRGB...

Thanks, it looks like bmp3 gives you the right color palette. I'd experimented with the different types a little but didn't see any differences at first.

Can some sort of note get added to the descriptions of the different formats so that no one else will have this problem?

Hi, I'm not sure if this is an accidental bug or just how bmps work in this version of ImageMagick but it's an issue. I'm trying to convert a color PDF to a 500ppi grayscale bmp. I'm 90% of the way there but I'm having some issues with the bmp color palette. My bmp looks right and when I use identif...

Hi, I'm trying to convert a color PDF to a 500ppi grayscale bmp. I'm 90% of the way there but I'm having some issues with the bmp color palette. My bmp looks right and when I use identify -verbose everything in there looks fine but if I open the bmp using a hex editor I can see that the color palett...