[magick-users] Hello, I have a couple questions, layering & command seq.

[Fred Weinhaus]

Sorry, I never use BMP. I work mostly on MAC/Unix.  But I have never 
had trouble with IM created files in any format but TIFF loading them 
into PS or any of my Mac imaging tools.

Perhaps there is something odd about your image or your image 
delegates. Are you using an IM binary or are you installing IM from 
source. If the latter, be sure your delegate libraries are current 
and installed correctly.

Check your IM configuration to see what delegates you have installed

convert -list configure


What version of IM are you using - try to use the latest and not some 
old version. Also are you using XP or Vista?


That is about all I can suggest.


If you want to post a link to a BMP file that you are having trouble 
with. I can see if I can load it into PS.





>Thank you incredibly. I have run into a bump in the road. For some
>reason, the BMP generated file from convert.exe, does not read well into
>photoshop or into this other native graphic tool I have,... i.e. I get a
>cannot parse the file error basically. However, oddly, the image does
>seem to appear when I display it in a Windows preview gui, and so
>something was created and it was successful from that standpoint... just
>a inter-file compatibility issue... the third-party tools i design with
>in Windows doesn't seem to like the bmp. Are there different ways
>to generate or re-mix a BMP from convert? I note photoshop allows to save
>BMP's as Windows or Unix format, and just curious if maybe I can try
>different conversion methods to make my file compatible. :)  Also too,
>this has happened with a PNG I created, ... when I attempted to load the
>convert generated PNG into a high level windows code structure.  It
>was converted from PNG into a raw HexData.... but didn't like the PNG for
>some reason, even though it seems to 'load' and display.  Just not making
>ends meet here.  Any suggestions? :)