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I have +- 500 .bmp's that I would like to convert to .png's. It would be especially nice if the color white (#FFFFFF) of the original BMP's could be converted to transparent in the .png's.

PNG-8 is enough since the .bmp's are 16-colors.

I would prefer a command-line tool that I can put in a batch file, but any would be useful. Do you know of such a tool?

edit: The OS I use most is Windows 7 x64, but I also have Cygwin and various linuxes available

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ImageMagick can do this - have a look at the Convert command, which allows you to specify a colour to be used as the transparency value:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

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    That definitly seems promising. conver -transparent white source.bmp dest.png does exactly what I want, however only mogrify supports multiple files and it only has -transparent-color which doesn't really work. Looking further
    – dtech
    Sep 26, 2011 at 19:35
  • Ultimately I just used a script with a loop. For those, interested, effictive code was convert -transparent white $f ${f%bmp}png
    – dtech
    Sep 26, 2011 at 20:26
  • @dtech: and your system was Windows, Linux, Mac, android.... ?
    – woliveirajr
    Sep 26, 2011 at 20:27
  • @woliveirajr it was a bash shell, other shells should allow simalar constructs
    – dtech
    Sep 29, 2011 at 12:24
  • if you want to run it as a bash script for batch conversion in a whole folder full of files: for file in *.png ; do convert "${file}" -transparent '#ffcc66' "batch/${file}" ; done
    – Sameer Shemna
    Oct 21, 2014 at 10:09
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Using what operating system, etc ?

One suggestion - generic answer: give a try to ImageMagik.

Right from the first page you can get:

Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG). Transparency: render portions of an image invisible.

Usage example:

convert file.jpg -transparent-color '#ffffff' file.png
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