YanVal Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Hi all. On Windows and Photo 2. I have a 4bit bmp image, indexed as shown in Photoshop, which I want to do a small amend and then save it as it is. Specifically, I want to move the text on the top and save. Don't want to change anything in it's properties. When I go to the export option, the BMP is missing from the format list. Any idea what I can do? Example attached. In Photoshop for example, I just move the text and hit save and it's done. Thank you. test.bmp Edited March 19 by YanVal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Hi @YanVal and welcome to the forums. Unfortunately, BMP is not a supported file format that you can export to. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 If you have imagemagick available you can open the file in Photo make the edit copy to clipboard in a cmd or Ps window do magick clipboard: -colors 4 bmp3:test2.bmp test2.bmp Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 3 hours ago, lacerto said: A bit oddly "Save" command is left non-grayed for opened files which is very misleading since for certain formats saving vs. exporting is actually available and the command should clearly indicate ability or inability to save to the opened native format by using enabled / grayed out menu command, instead of just automatically showing the Save As .aphoto dialog box when saving back cannot be done (the price is that if "Save As" fallback is always assumed, then the user might actually save back and inadvertently overwrite the original file in cases where saving back is actually supported). But Affinity apps do this for other file formats, too, e.g. SVG, so I guess this is "by design". Save is enabled for raster formats that you've Opened, and for PSD if you've Opened one and you have the "Save over PSD" option enabled in Settings. And for the Affinity file types, of course. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Яuislip Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 42 minutes ago, lacerto said: why force colors to four instead of allowing the maximum of 16 (in a 4-bit image)? magick identify -verbose test.bmp reports 3 colors so I used 4 but yeah 16 won't do any harm it also shows uncompressed so I left that alone. If you add say -compress RLE then the file size reduces dramatically but maybe the OP's program won't handle it, Photo can't although Photoshop, Photos, Irfanview and Chrome can test16RLE.bmp lacerto 1 Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 BMP isn't in the list of supported formats that can be opened although it does work. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/full-feature-list/ (in the compatibility section) R C-R 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Obsolete. David in Яuislip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Perhaps the xnconvert or the batch convert in xnviewmp is an option here. https://www.xnview.com/en/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YanVal Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 wow, thank you all for your help with this! It's a pitty Photo cannot open such a simple format that has been around since day 0! I have the alternative of creating tiff's instead so I think I will go that way. Thank you all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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