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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...