Tag: conversion
Graphics format conversion
by Mostafa on Dec.09, 2009, under LaTeX, Linux, Software
Up until now I have been using the ‘convert‘ tool that comes with ImageMagick to switch between image formats — mainly for creating EPS files from JPG/PNG (raster format) files for use with LaTeX. Then I came across sam2p.
It is a light-weight utility that does one thing only and it does it well: convert between image formats. I’ve been using it for a while now and find that it can greatly reduce files sizes with minimal drop in quality. I’ve even used it to process existing EPS files just to get the reduction in file size. Best of all, it is multi-platform — executables are available for both Windows and Linux on the project homepage.
Goodbye convert and hello sam2p!
Mass conversion of images
by Mostafa on May.07, 2007, under How To ..., LaTeX, Linux, Software
The following “one-liner” can be used to mass convert a given image format into another using the convert (part of ImageMagick) and basename tools:
$ for A in $(ls *.$SRC_TYPE); do convert $A $(basename $A .$SRC_TYPE).$DST_TYPE; done
where $SRC_TYPE is the file suffix of the original images (e.g. png) and $DST_TYPE is the file suffix of the type desired (e.g. eps).