Re: set depth of bitmap image

>Newbie trying to set the pixel depth when creating a bitmap image 
>from raw 8-bit grayscale data (i.e. each byte is one pixel 0x00 - 
>0xff)
>
>  > convert -size 100x200 -depth 8 gray:rawdata image.bmp
>
>This gives me image.bmp with 24-bit depth. But how can I force .bmp 
>to be also only 8-bit?



try

convert -size 100x200 gray:rawdata -type palette image.bmp