Looking for a Linux tool ...

Hi all,

Anyone know of a tool that converts PNG images to JPG?

 

Wouldn't Gimp do it? Or do you have a ton that you'd rather just run some automatic converter on?

 

I think this can do it: http://www.imagemagick.org

 

Imagemagick or graphicsmagick - 'convert' or 'gm convert' respectively.

 

Convert can do many things. Just skim through "man convert".

 

Hi Veeshush,

Gimp did not seem to have an easy to use interface for converting file formats as far as I could tell. So No.

 

Hi mirimir,

In what repository is convert (for Unix/Linux)? Obviously, I do not have convert installed on my system, and rarely if ever do such image conversions.

 

Hi Nebulus,

Thanks - I was able to download a Unix tar file version, and I will try that first.

 

Hi Gullible Jones,

Thanks, I will try graphicsmagick if I have no luck with Imagemagick!

 

It's part of ImageMagick.

 

Can't you just use gimp and "export as..." jpg?

 

This is going to sound weird. But sometimes I just rename the extension. Like for .mpo (3d photos) I change to .jpg. It produces 2 .jpg files. I always try changing the file extension on whatever over the years & it works more often than I would've thought.

 

Yes, very simple, not used it in a while but you can pretty much run the command "convert file.png file.jpg" and optionally specify the compression ratio.

 

The only way this would work is if the file manager converted files automatically when the extension changed. Not sure if any file managers support that; personally I think such a thing would be a misfeature.

 

I like XnConvert and the command line version nconvert.

 

Xnconvert was easy to use to accomplish the conversion.

-- Tom