PIL can't open bmp

David C. Ullrich ullrich at math.okstate.edu
Wed Apr 25 14:16:50 EDT 2001


On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:44:38 GMT, Thomas Kwapich <kwapich at ebeko.de>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need to convert bmp files to eps files under win98. I thought using=20=
>
>python (v2.1) and the python image library (v1.1.1) is a good idea. But =
>
>when I try to open an bmp file I get an IOError: Unsupported BMP pixel=20=
>
>depth. So, what can I do?

Do you know what the pixel depth _is_? MS introduced 15-bit and 16-bit
bitmaps around 1995, and there's lots of commercial software that
still doesn't believe such bmp files exist.

>Many thanks in advance.
>
>Thomas




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