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Commands tagged convert

Terminal - Commands tagged convert - 64 results

convert infile.png $ +clone -channel GB -evaluate set 0 +channel $ +append -region 50%x100% -channel R -evaluate set 0 +channel outfile.png

2013-04-30 20:46:02

User: bugmenot

Functions: set

Tags: ImageMagick convert

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Convert red-cyan 3D anaglyph to side-by-side

Converts red-cyan 3D anaglyphs to side-by-side format viewable by crossing your eyes. Useful for people who don't have 3D glasses or prefer not to use one.

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convert {1..12}.png MyMultiPageFile.pdf

2013-03-26 01:30:38

User: lpanebr

Tags: ImageMagick pdf convert

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Convert multiple images to multi page PDF (with specific page order)

Creates a PDF from multiple images. One page per image.

If you want a specific arbitrary order you can use {1,3,5,10,12}

* you may use jpg, tif etc

** if you do use jpg images you might want to add "-compress Zip" as suggested below to prevent from having the images from being re-compressed.

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mencoder FILENAME.3gp -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o FILENAME.avi

2013-03-25 23:30:15

User: o0110o

Tags: video Linux mencoder convert command

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Convert videos to AVI format

Requires mencoder.

for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600 resized-$file; done

2013-02-17 21:37:14

User: sonic

Functions: file

Tags: xargs convert

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resize all images in folder and create new images (w/o overwriting)

To ignore aspect ratio, run:

for file in *; do convert $file -resize 800x600! resized-$file; done

and all images will be exactly 800x600.

Use your shell of choice.. This was done in BASH.

for file in `ls *.png`;do convert $file -resize 65% new_$file; done

2013-02-07 05:27:13

User: adimania

Functions: file

Tags: ImageMagick convert resize

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resize all the images returned by ls command and append "new_" to the resized images

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mogrify -crop <width>x<height>+<X-offset>+<Y-offset> *.png

2013-01-24 11:42:48

User: michelsberg

Tags: ImageMagick convert mogrify

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batch crop images whit ImageMagick

Just starting to get in love with mogrify.

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mogrify -transparent white image*.png

2013-01-23 16:58:24

User: michelsberg

Tags: ImageMagick convert mogrify transparency

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Turn white color to transparent for a series of png images

mogrify can be used like convert. The difference is that mogrify overwrites files:

http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html

Of course, other source colors can be used as well.

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soffice --headless -convert-to odt:"writer8" somefile.docx

2012-12-27 15:08:38

User: mhs

Tags: convert libreoffice soffice

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Commandline document conversion with Libreoffice

In this example, the docx gets converted to Open Document .odt format.

For other formats, you'll need to specify the correct filter (Hint: see "Comments" link below for a nice list).

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pdf2jpg(){ convert -density 400 -bordercolor white -border 0 -resize 992x1403 -quality 85 $1 ${1/%pdf/jpg} ; }

2012-11-08 15:28:18

User: return13

Tags: pdf jpg convert

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converts an A4 PDF file to accurate jpgs

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dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/cdrom_image.iso

2012-07-10 06:03:25

User: o0110o

Functions: dd

Tags: dd cd iso dvd convert

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Rip a CD/DVD to ISO format.

An easy method to generate ISOs from CD/DVD media.

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convert -size 100x100 xc:grey nopic100_100.jpg

2012-06-15 11:23:02

User: theduke

Tags: ImageMagick image convert

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Create a new image with specified size and bg color

Quickly create a new image with a certain size and background color.

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convert image1 image2 -resize '400x300!' MIFF:- | compare -metric AE -fuzz '10%' - null:

2012-04-17 11:25:34

User: dooblem

Tags: ImageMagick diff compare convert images

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Compare / diff two images

Outputs the number of different pixels.

2 params to increase tolerance:

* thumbnails size

* fuzz, the color distance tolerance

See http://en.positon.org/post/Compare-/-diff-between-two-images for more details.

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icotool -l demo.ico

2012-04-14 09:34:05

User: k2s

Tags: extract image convert icons icotool

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List all images in icon/cursor files

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/icotool.1.html

There is also wrestool command.

ffmpeg -i video.flv audio.ogg

2012-03-05 23:43:45

User: aminehmida

Tags: video audio ffmpeg convert converter

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Convert flv/mp4 video to ogg/mp3

A simple command to extract audio from flv/mp4 video file.

Just change extentions...

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for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-$[^-]\+$-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "$[^"]\+$",.*/\1/' ...

2012-01-06 20:26:11

User: fpunktk

Functions: echo read wget

Tags: bash ImageMagick sed identify convert xkcd

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add title and alt-text to your collection of xkcd comics

full command:

for fn in xkcd*.png xkcd*.jpg; do; echo $fn; read xw xh <<<$(identify -format '%w %h' $fn); nn="$(echo $fn | sed 's/xkcd-\([0-9]\+\)-.*/\1/')"; wget -q -O xkcd-${nn}.json http://xkcd.com/$nn/info.0.json; tt="$(sed 's/.*"title": "\([^"]*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; at="$(sed 's/.*alt": "\(.*\)", .*/\1/' xkcd-${nn}.json)"; convert -background white -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf -pointsize 26 -size ${xw}x -gravity Center caption:"$tt" tt.png; convert -background '#FFF9BD' -border 1x1 -bordercolor black -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf -pointsize 16 -size $(($xw - 2))x -gravity Center caption:"$at" at.png; th=$(identify -format '%h' tt.png); ah=$(identify -format '%h' at.png); convert -size ${xw}x$(($xh+$th+$ah+5)) "xc:white" tt.png -geometry +0+0 -composite $fn -geometry +0+$th -composite at.png -geometry +0+$(($th+$xh+5)) -composite ${fn%\.*}_cmp.png; echo -e "$fn $nn $xw $xh $th $ah \n$tt \n$at\n"; done

this assumes that all comics are saved as xkcd-[number]-[title].{png|jpg}.

it will then download the title and alt-text, create pictures from them, and put everything together in a new png-file.

it's not perfect, but it worked for nearly all my comics.

it uses the xkcd-json-interface.

though it's poorly written, it doesn't completely break on http://xkcd.com/859/

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youtube-dl -o bun.flv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPLcQhXpCc; mplayer bun.flv -ss 03:16 -endpos 5 -vo jpeg:outdir=bun:quality=100:smooth=30:progressive -vf scale=320:240 -nosound; convert -delay 4 -loop 0 bun/*.jpg bun.gif

2012-01-05 17:53:22

User: joeyliechty

Tags: mplayer youtube convert gif

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Create an animated gif from a Youtube video

Creates a better looking gif than the original post via imagemagick processing high quality jpgs, rather than converting directly to gif from the video itself.

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python -c 'print "hello".encode("hex")'

2011-12-13 23:05:17

User: atoponce

Functions: python

Tags: hex ascii python convert

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convert ascii string to hex

You can use "decode()" in a similar manner:

python -c 'print "68656c6c6f".decode("hex")'

evince-thumbnailer --size=600 book.pdf book.png

2011-11-23 16:03:44

User: cesarbustios

Tags: convert evince-thumbnailer

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Create thumbnail of PDF

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convert -resize 200 awk.pdf[0] awk.png

2011-11-23 03:50:15

User: kev

Tags: convert

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create thumbnail of pdf

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mencoder vcd://2 -o sample.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

2011-10-02 17:25:14

User: mmghaseminya

Tags: avi convert vcd

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Convert vcd to avi format

Convert VCD to .AVI

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tr -d "\r" < file.vcf | tr "\0" " " > file.vcf.txt

2011-09-09 19:21:44

User: totti

Functions: tr

Tags: text convert vcard

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Convert phone book VCARD to text

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convert -background none -pointsize 55 label:"`whoami`" me.png

2011-09-07 17:06:38

User: totti

Tags: ImageMagick image convert

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Text to image with transparent background

Create transparent image to use as icon, watermark for other images, etc.

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sox is_that_correct.wav -t raw -r 8000 -s -w -c 1 is_that_correct.sln

2011-08-31 13:03:30

User: tkembo

Tags: sound convert asterisk format

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Convert a .wav file to .sln file

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sudo sox <file name>.wav -r 8000 <file name>.gsm

2011-08-11 07:29:16

User: tkembo

Functions: sudo

Tags: sound convert

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Convert .wav audio files to .gsm format

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sudo sox <file name>.wav -r 8000 <file name>.gsm

2011-08-11 07:29:14

User: tkembo

Functions: sudo

Tags: sound convert

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Convert .wav audio files to .gsm forman

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