Specify BMP Color Depth or Compression

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#1

Hi all,
Does anyone happen to know how to change the compression of a BMP to 1:2 or how to change the depth to 16-bit? I’ve tried various commands with Image Events, sips, and ImageMagick. Nothing seemed to work. I can do it in GIMP, but I’m trying to find a way to automate it.

Thanks,
maeks84

#2

I came across a Python script that converts bmp’s to 16-bit that seems to work. [url=http://www.visi.com/~grante/sansa/bmp16]http://www.visi.com/~grante/sansa/bmp16[/url] Save it as bmp16.py and run python bmp16.py in.bmp out.bmp
in the terminal.

It should be easy enough to get this into a script now.