Questions tagged [conversion]
Conversion between file formats.
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Split pages in pdf
I have a scanned pdf file which has scanned two pages on one virtual page (page in pdf file).
The resolution is with good quality. The problem is I have to zoom when reading and drag from left to the ...
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Creating a GIF animation from PNG files
Is there a tool to create a gif animation from a set of png files?
I tried the convert command from the ImageMagick suite, but this doesn't always succeed. Also, I have several issues with this:
I ...
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How to convert TXT to PDF?
I want to convert .txt files to .pdf. I'm using this:
ls | while read ONELINE; do convert -density 400 "$ONELINE" "$(echo "$ONELINE" | sed 's/.txt/.pdf/g')"; done
But this produces one "error" -- ...
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Mapping metadata with avconv does not work
The way I understand man avconv (version 9.16-6:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.1), the following command should convert input.ogg to output.mp3 and carry over metadata:
avconv -i input.ogg -map_metadata 0 ...
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pdf to jpg without quality loss; gscan2pdf
When I convert a pdf file to bunch of jpg files using
convert -quality 100 file.pdf page_%04d.jpg
I have appreciable quality loss.
However if I do the following, there is no (noticeable) quality ...
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convert images to pdf: How to make PDF Pages same size
I did something like
convert -page A4 -compress A4 *.png CH00.pdf
But the 1st page is much larger than the subsequent pages. This happens even though the image dimensions are similar. These images ...
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Specify encoding with libreoffice --convert-to csv
Excel files can be converted to CSV using:
$ libreoffice --convert-to csv --headless --outdir dir file.xlsx
Everything appears to work just fine. The encoding, though, is set to something wonky. ...
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How to convert SSH public key from PEM to DER format?
I'd like to convert an existing public key (generated using ssh-keygen) from PEM-format to DER-format
I tried:
openssl rsa -in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -inform PEM -pubin -outform DER -out ~/.ssh/id_rsa....
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Convert .bdf/.pcf font to .psf(u) for using as consolefont?
I am using Arch Linux.
Is it possible to convert a BDF or PCF font to a PSF font for use in console/CONSOLEFONT in rc.conf?
I haven't found anything that can do it,except bdf2psf which I got the ...
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Converting multiple image files from JPEG to PDF format
I want to convert some files from jpeg to pdf. I am using following command.
$ convert image1.jpg image1.pdf
But I have 100 images. How should I convert all of them to corresponding pdfs?
I tried ...
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Convert a .xlsx (MS Excel) file to .csv on command line with semicolon separated fields
I realize that this is not an entirely unix/linux related question. But since this is something I'll do on linux, I hope someone has an answer.
I have an online excel file (.xlsx) which gets updated ...
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Convert between Unicode Normalization Forms on the unix command-line
In Unicode, some character combinations have more than one representation.
For example, the character ä can be represented as
"ä", that is the codepoint U+00E4 (two bytes c3 a4 in UTF-8 encoding), ...
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shell command to get pixel size of an image
Is there a shell command that returns the pixel size of an image?
I'm trying to produce an animated gif starting from different gifs with different sizes using convert (e.g. convert -delay 50 1.gif 2....
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Convert binary mode to text mode and the reverse option
By the following way I convert a simple binary file into a text file
od –t x1 Check.tar | cut –c8- > Check.txt
Which gives a content similar to:
64 65 76 2f 6e 75 6c 6c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
...
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Save HTML from clipboard as markdown text
I want to be able to highlight a section of a web page and copy it to the clipboard then save it to my local disk as markdown. I need an efficient way to do that.
My current cumbersome method is:
...
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How get the best quality when converting from mp4 to avi with ffmpeg?
When I use this, the quality doesn't look bad.
ffmpeg -same_quant -i video.mp4 video.avi
In the ffmpeg documentation is written: "Note that this is NOT SAME QUALITY. Do not use this option unless ...
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How can I embed subtitles into videos with ffmpeg?
I'm told it's possible to embed subtitles (.srt) into video files (.avi) using ffmpeg, but I can't find any mention of it in the man page. Is this possible? What command do I use?
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How to convert all files from gzip to xz on the fly (and recursively)?
I have a directory tree with gzipped files like this:
basedir/a/file.dat.gz
basedir/b/file.dat.gz
basedir/c/file.dat.gz
etc.
How can I convert all of these from gzip to xz with a single command and ...
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How do I convert a troff manpage with UTF-8 characters (czech to be precise) to PDF
I have a troff document (manpage) with UTF-8 characters and I am trying to convert it to a PDF. However, when using the -Tpdf option, the PDF generated does not show the correct characters. This is ...
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Convert file with integers written in ascii to binary file of integers
I have a file that contains a long list of integers written in ascii separated with newlines, like such:
-175
2
-19345
345592
-45
2355
etc...
I want to convert this file into a "binary" file ...
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Command not working anymore in Thunar custom actions
I used to create a Thunar custom action as presented here in order to extract audio without transcoding from selected (multiple) video files .
The command to be added in Thunar custom actions list ...
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Converting .docx files to plain text and preserving line breaks to maintain line number references to source document: howto & implications?
I'm exporting MS Word content to plain text for use with text&file utilities. I have a constraint where the line numbering feature has been enabled in the MS software, and any reference to line ...
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How to convert WavPack to FLAC?
I need to convert a bunch of .wv files to .flac but I can't seem to find a program to do it. Does anybody know how I can do this?
P.S.: I was wondering why Audacity does not support the importing .wv ...
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How do I re-encode a mixed encoded text file
I've got a log file that is ASCII, except for a few UTF-8 characters (which I can fix for a future version).
For the moment, I need to figure out how to get this file to a viewable/searchable/...
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jpg to pdf without data loss
Trying to make such things:
1st step:
convert img.jpg img.pdf
2nd step:
pdfimages -j img.pdf img1
Comparing source and extracted images in HEX shows difference. How to make such conversion ...
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Convert linked html files into a pdf file?
I would like to convert an online book (linked html files) into a pdf file.
I tried the two-step way in http://kmkeen.com/mirror/2009-02-05-14-00-00.html
First, download the html files by
wget -nd -...
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Can htmldoc create multi-level pdf bookmarks?
I downloaded an online html book (http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~franco/OpSys-304-427/lecture-notes/lecture-notes.html), by the following command
wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=3 -p -k http://www.cim.mcgill....
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Converting .NEF to .JPG
I am trying to convert .NEF files to .JPG and I am using the command:
mogrify -format JPG *.NEF
this produces
mogrify: delegate failed `"ufraw-batch" --silent --create-id=also --out- type=png --...
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How to convert tar file from gnu format to pax format
On the one hand I have a lot of tar files created with gnu format, and on the other hand I have a tool that only supports pax (aka posix) format. I am looking for an easy way to convert the existing ...
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How to convert .doc to ODF with a command line?
I'd like to convert many Microsoft Word documents to ODF (the OO.org formata with a command line (because there are many of them).
(I need them for reading afterwards on a device where reading OO.org ...
asked May 8 '14 at 15:31
imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev
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Migrate from thunderbird to sylpheed while preserving folder structure
Is there an automatic way migrate a thunderbird mailbox to sylpheed while preserving the folder structure. I tried the importexport extension for thunderbird and got a directory with multiple mbox ...
