See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#two_color for some more
information and possibilities.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Ross Presser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Grayscale is not a 1-bit colorspace, it is an 8-bit colorspace. If you
> really want black and white, you probably want it dithered. Try this:
> convert -monochrome -density 200 -depth 1 source.eps dest.png
>
> Systems will still report your PNG as 8 bits per pixel; PNG doesn't have a
> 1-bit-per-pixel depth as I recall. TIFF does, though:
>
> $ convert -monochrome -density 200 -depth 1 logo: test.tiff
> $ identify test.tiff
> test.tiff TIFF 640x480 640x480+0+0 DirectClass 1-bit 7.74219kb
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Rechtsanwalt A. Winzer <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm not that good in english but I have a problem with convert and I'm
>> willing to solve it. I use convert with the following command-line:
>>
>> convert -colorspace Gray -density 200 -depth 1 source.eps dest.png
>>
>> The quality of the result is quite poor and the bit depth in some graphic
>> prograns (windows xp) is shown as 32 bit.
>> How can I make the picture with a depth of only one single bit and get a
>> better quality?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alex
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