Questions tagged [conversion]
Conversion between file formats.
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Convert an MH folder to mbox
Is there a good method to convert a mail directory in MH format (as it is used by Claws) to an mbox directory, as it is used by Thunderbird?
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How do I convert .step files to .stl?
How do I convert .step files to .stl, preferably in the Linux terminal?
I am attempting to convert a 3D model from one format to another.
More information on STL: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(...
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Should we use convert or img2pdf for creating lossless multi-page PDF files out of gray PNM photocopies? And why?
Let's assume that you have 4 scanned pages, created by scanimage -resolution 1200 and postprocessed by GIMP: each page was rotated so that the text lines were horizontal, the bled-through text was ...
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Convert (ImageMagick) ignores quality level setting when converting to webp in Mint 22
I've been using convert to recompress images to webp for publication. My command line is:
convert -quality 70 input.jpg test.webp
This works in Mint 20 (ImageMagick 6.9.10-23), but in Mint 22 (...
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Flatpak-installed Calibre: cannot find ebook-convert command
On my Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon (Wilma) based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble).
I ended up installing Calibre in spite my initial dislike, via Flatpak:
$ flatpak install flathub com.calibre_ebook.calibre
The ...
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Converting sw md device from raid0 to raid1 with only one disk online
Is it possible to convert an existing raid0 md device with only one disk to a raid1 md device with one disk in order to add a second mirror disk later?
It should be possible online.
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Split a group of images vertically with output in different directories
I have a directory with 170 png photos on a Linux Mint machine, which I want to split in half. I came up with a solution, but it didn't work properly, because it overloaded the cache. The command I ...
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Convert swf files to mp4
I came accross this nice web. There are swf and mp3 files.
I'd like to convert them to mp4 or something, so it is viewable.
I tried gnash and ffmpeg without success.
I'm on Lubuntu 22.04
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can't encode a WAV file to FLAC; returns 'ERROR: unsupported format type 3'
The error reportedly originates from files created on Windows. When attempting to convert, flac 1.4.3 prints:
$ flac --best ~/music/unknown-80s-german-song.wav
unknown-80s-german-song.wav: ERROR: ...
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How to convert CR to CRLF line endings on a file?
An ASCII text file, with CR line terminators, (Mac style) needs to be converted to have CRLF line terminators (DOS/Windows style).
Search for CR not followed by LF, and replace that CR with a CRLF. So ...
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I need to create a pipe to convert string from UTF-8 to UTF-7-IMAP
To automate the command line creation of hundreds of directories in IMAP maildirs, I would need to be able to convert UTF-8 strings to UTF-7-IMAP on the fly.
In php, I found a way to do it with a ...
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How to convert accented characters in an email
I want to send an email with the body ($BODY) containing accented characters like é, à, ô...
echo "$TO" | mail -s $SUBJECT $BODY
But the result shows unreadable characters.
I tried to ...
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Is there a way for a nonprivileged user to read/mount a UDF filesystem in linux without using sudo
I'm renting a node on a linux server.
uname -a
Linux 5.15.112-gentoo #2 SMP x86_64 AMD 64-Core Processor Authentic AMD GNU/Linux
By nature as a renter I can't become superuser or even use sudo.
I ...
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Convert json to csv with headers in jq
Is it possible to convert this json:
[
{
"bytes": 276697,
"checked": false
},
{
"bytes": 276697,
"checked": false
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Converting a TXT file to PDF from the command line using a custom font
I want to convert a UTF-8 txt file to PDF for printing with CUPS. The problem I'm facing is that all tools I've tried have either failed to format the PDF (resulting in a fully white document with no ...
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