Hi there, I'm trying to open a 256-colour windows BMP and a 24-bit windows BMP with PIL usiing the following command:
Image.open("image.bmp") When I try and open the 24-bit BMP the error I get is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module> im = Image.open("lightbulb.bmp") File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1730, in open return factory(fp, filename) File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFile.py", line 82, in __init__ self._open() File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\BmpImagePlugin.py", line 164, in _open self._bitmap(offset=offset) File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\BmpImagePlugin.py", line 96, in _bitmap raise IOError("Unsupported BMP header type (%d)" % len(s)) IOError: Unsupported BMP header type (108) When I try and open the 256-colour BMP the error I get is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module> im = Image.open("lightbulb2.bmp") File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\Image.py", line 1730, in open return factory(fp, filename) File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFile.py", line 82, in __init__ self._open() File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\BmpImagePlugin.py", line 164, in _open self._bitmap(offset=offset) File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\PIL\BmpImagePlugin.py", line 120, in _bitmap raise IOError("Unsupported BMP compression (%d)" % compression) IOError: Unsupported BMP compression (1) I can open a windows monochrome bitmap fine using PIL but the colour options are more desirable. I am using Windows 2000 if that is any help and I am saving the different BMP's using Microsoft Paint. If you could help that would be great. Craig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list