[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#603097: no way to make real "black" and "white" jpg

[Nelson A. de Oliveira]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:54 PM,  <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> All I know is I only wanted two colors, and imagemagick ignores my
> wishes, no matter how I try to express them.

I am afraid that it's a limitation of the format that you are using
(JPEG). Even with other image manipulation programs it seems that it's
not possible to get 2-colors only JPEG images for this case (with
Gimp, for example, the minimum that I saw was a 4 colors image).

http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17443
seems to confirm this.

Best regards,
Nelson