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I'm trying to do a simple reduction of the depth of some grayscale images (of text) that I have. They're in PNG format. When I use a depth of 2 or 3, the entire image gets compressed into the left side of the canvas, leaving the side half black. It only seems to happen with gray PNG files. I can reproduce it via
In this case the image is compressed into the left half of the canvas. If I make the depth 2, then the image is compressed into the leftmost quarter of the canvas. A depth of 1 is fine.

NB If I output to show: as PNG:, I get the same error:
Perhaps something with writing to PNG?

Tested OK with jpg and tiff output formats.

MacOS 10.13.6

Version: ImageMagick 7.0.8-12 Q16 x86_64 2018-09-24 https://imagemagick.org
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This works fine in v7.0.7-28 (with libpng 1.6.34). Perhaps more recent versions have a bug.

Yeah, I do this a lot and the problem just started.

Looks like the same issue has been reported and fixed here: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/1343