[vox-tech] Forcing a greyscape JPEG into RGB colorspace?

[Brian Lavender]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:29:47AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> So I've got a system that receives images from users
> We then ship those out to a 3rd party.  This 3rd party
> requires that they be JPEGs (easy to convert to) of a
> certain size (easy to check) and in RGB colorspace
> (vs CMYK or Grey).
> 
> I had a great bit of difficulty, and simply threw my hands up,
> when trying to "encourage" a greyscale image (that is, a picture
> that's only grey pixels) to become an RGB colorspace JPEG.
> 
> Every automated tool I tried (libjpeg-progs, ImageMagick,
> possibly others; it's been a while) seemed to ignore my colorspace
> hint, and said to themselves "ah, but it's only grey pixels;
> let's just save it as Grey colorspace!)
> 
> Does anyone here have any suggestions on a tool that can handle
> this for me?  (Again, this will be running on a server as part

Do you have a jpeg that is in grey? 

brian
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