[magick-users] Converting 16-bit GRAY files to 8 bits

[Fred Weinhaus]

>I do have Q16. I did some variants of the 'convert gradient:' commands
>in your other message and got both 8-bit and 16-bit grey-scale PNG's.
>It seems that the statement
>      To force the use of an single 8bit greyscale channel use either
>        convert  input.jpg  -type Scale       gray.png
>        convert  input.jpg  -type GrayScale   gray.png
>at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#png_formats
>is incorrect.
>
>But I still don't know how to change my 12-bit pixels to 8 bits :-(



There is no such thing as -type Scale as far as I know.

convert -list type

will show you all the options for -type

I do not agree that

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#png_formats

is incorrect.


But I don't know how to help you further with changing 12-bits to 8-bits.

Hopeufully Anthony or Magick can help further.

You could also post to the Users forum at

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewforum.php?f=1