Can't Open bmp (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of bits must be between 1 and 16.)

[lrohr]

Hallo,

I already searched the internet but couldn't find any answer for my problem.

I've got some .bmp Image when I try to open one of them the following Exception is thrown :

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Number of bits must be between 1 and 16.
        at java.awt.image.IndexColorModel.<init>(IndexColorModel.java:143)
        at ij.plugin.BMPDecoder.makeImageSource(BMP_Reader.java:291)
        at ij.plugin.BMP_Reader.run(BMP_Reader.java:46)
        at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:149)
        at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:130)
        at ij.io.Opener.openImage(Opener.java:234)
        at ij.io.Opener.openImage(Opener.java:260)
        at ij.io.Opener.open(Opener.java:124)
        at ij.io.Opener.open(Opener.java:63)
        at ij.plugin.Commands.run(Commands.java:23)
        at ij.IJ.runPlugIn(IJ.java:149)
        at ij.Executer.runCommand(Executer.java:104)
        at ij.Executer.run(Executer.java:58)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)


I tried it under Mac OS and Windows with the same result.

The images are OK since I can open them with gimp and convert them to  .tif , which then can be read by ImageJ.

But all the images I get are .bmp and I don't want to convert several hundrets of images ...

Can anybody help me ?

Thanks so far.