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a2png a2png is a small program that converts plain text into PNG images. aart aart converts PNM (PGM, PBM, PPM) images into colored ASCII. It supports user-defined color palletes, PSF fonts, and character sets. It generates a PPM image file or a text file. AutoTrace AutoTrace is a program for converting bitmap to vector graphics. The aim of the AutoTrace project is the development of a freely available application similar to CorelTrace or Adobe Streamline. csv2png and csv2jpeg csv2png and csv2jpeg are for plotting more general data from csv files. This is a very basic program, intended for CGI use. dxf2G dxf2G is a simple program that converts DXF 2D files into .ngc G-code files that can be used in programs such as Emc2. EasyBMPtoAVI EasyBMPtoAVI is a cross-platform, easy-to-use application that converts a series of BMP images of any bit depth to an AVI movie file. EasyBMPtoAVI supports both command-line and interactive use. ecg2png ecg2png is designed to convert scanned 12-lead electrocardiograms into PNG format and a web-friendly image size. It assumes that the electrocardiogram (ECG) is printed with a black line on white paper with a red grid. Empgm Empgm is a simple tool for converting images from various electron microscopy formats to the standard 'pgm' format. This format is supported by most image viewing and editing programs including 'xv' and the popular 'netppm' package.Currently it will read 'MRC', 'IMAGIC' and 'ScansALot' files. Images can optionally be fourier transformed (within empgm). Engauge Digitizer This open source, digitizing software converts an image file showing a graph or map, into numbers. The image file can come from a scanner, digital camera or screenshot. The numbers can be read on the screen, and written or copied to a spreadsheet. epd2svg epd2svg converts from the EPD vector graphics format to SVG. epsjoin With epsjoin you can create a postscript document from a collection of eps images. Each image is put on a separate page, individually rotated and translated. epstool Epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps. It features: Add EPSI, DOS EPS or Mac PICT previews, Extract PostScript from DOS EPS files, Uses Ghostscript to create preview bitmaps, and Create a TIFF, WMF, PICT or Interchange preview from part of a bitmap created by Ghostscript. gen3img gen3img is a tool to automatically convert graphic files to three different sizes, in three different (or same) qualities if the output file format allows that. gfXcon gfXcon converts image files between different formats. It supports all formats that Imlib2 currently supports. It is console-based, but needs X to operate. gif2png The gif2png program converts files from the obsolescent Graphic Interchange Format to Portable Network Graphics. The conversion preserves all graphic information, including transparency, perfectly. The gif2png program can even recover data from corrupted GIFs. gifmerge gifmerge merges single GIFs into an GIF89a Animation. gifmerge is based on txtmerge written by Mark Podlipec, part of XANIM distribution. GPSBabel GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, or even a serial upload or download to a GPS unit such as those from Garmin and Magellan. hp2xx The hp2xx program is a versatile tool to convert vector-oriented graphics data given in Hewlett-Packard's HP-GL plotter language into a variety of popular graphics formats, both vector- and raster-oriented. HPGL-Distiller HPGL-Distiller is a small program that was written to filter out aspects of a HPGL file which are not relevant for various HPGL output devices, typically vinyl cutters. The original reason for filtering out the irrelevant codes was that my own personal vinyl cutter was responding poorly to the excess data. HPGL-DXF HPGL-DXF is a program to convert HPGL files into DXF format, which can be read by the likes of QCAD. HPGS - HPGl Script An HPGL/2 interpreter, which renders HPGL/2 through a Postscript-like API. Currently, it can render to eps and png files. For rendering the scenery to pixel formats, a rendering engine has been coded, which draws vector graphics into pixel buffers. html2jpg html2jpg converts HTML pages to images (gif, jpg, png, ps, etc..). html2jpg requires Mozilla (only some versions) to work. ies2iv ies2iv opens an IESNA file and translates it to the Open Inventor format in order to represent it in 3D and visualize it with software like ivview. IFSgr IFSgr render Fractint's 2D IFS (Iterated Function System) files to grayscale, converts them to Gimp IFS Compose format. The IFSes are automatically scaled and translated to fit to the canvas (more precisely to [0,1]x[0,1] square). iie IIE stands for Image Information Extractor. It's designed to extract metadata from images and export it to different formats (txt, csv, xml). Image Sign Image Sign is a utility to digitally sign images and store the signature within them in a comment block. This allows the images to be viewed as normal but their integrity can easily be verified with no extra information. img2eps img2eps packages raster images into EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files, using whatever PostScript features are advantageous. If possible, the compressed image data is copied directly to the EPS file. Supported image file formats are GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and XPM. img2pdf img2pdf converts multiple PNG, TIFF and/or JPEG images to a PDF file. imgtops This package contains a pair of command-line utilites for translating between bitmap images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, Targa, BMP, etc.) and PostScript files. It requires Python (version 2.2 or higher) and the Python Imaging Library. ImgWorks ImgWorks is a graphical batch image converter that uses ImageMagick along with Endeavour Mark II to conveniently convert and edit a user-specified list of image/video files. jbig2enc jbig2enc is a fairly fully featured JBIG2 encoder. JBIG2 encodes bi-level (1 bpp) images using a number of clever tricks to get better compression than G4. jp2a jp2a is a small utility that converts JPG images to ASCII. It's written in C and released under the GNU General Public License v2 or later. jpg2pdf (shareware) jpg2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program. It can convert a collection of jpeg images into a unique PDF. You can use jpg2pdf like a module inside your applications (cgis, ...). khtml2png khtml2png is a command line program to create PNGs of webpages. KVEC (shareware) KVEC is a tool which can vectorize images using several graphic formats: WMF Windows Metafile, Enhanced Metafile, AutoCad DXF, HPGL, ART, Postscript, Adobe Illustrator AI, SVG/SVGZ (Scalable Vector Graphics), SWF, DST, HTML. libsvgtoswf libsvgtoswf converts Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) into Macromedia Flash (SWF) files. LProfHal Engel LProf is an open source color profiler that creates ICC compliant profiles for devices such as cameras, scanners and monitors. mesh2hmap mesh2hmap is a simple command line tool for converting 3D meshes to raster heightmaps. This tool allows you to create terrains in your favourite 3D modeller and then easily convert to a heightmap. NetPBM Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There are over 220 separate tools in the package including converters for about 100 graphics formats. ocre ocre takes a PGM file and outputs ASCII characters. OptiPNG A PNG optimizer that recompresses the image files to a smaller size, without losing any data. It works in a manner similar to pngcrush, but it has a wider automatic search space (leading to possibly a better compression), and it runs faster pdf2djvu pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files. It is able to extract graphics, text layer, hyperlinks, document outline (bookmarks), and metadata. PdfRipImage PdfRipImage is a program to automatically extract images from PDF documents and convert them to a format of your choice (such as JPEG or TIFF). It runs on UNIX-like platforms and requires utilities from netpbm and xpdf. Phatch Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. It can batch resize, rotate, apply perspective, shadows, rounded corners, ... and more in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Phatch allows you to use EXIF and IPTC tags for renaming and data stamping. Phatch also supports a console version to batch photos on web servers. png2html png2html takes a PNG image and transforms it into a Web page with the use of a text file. png2linuxlogo png2linuxlogo is a command-line utility to convert a PNG image of appropriate size (80x80 pixels) and type (palette, 223 or fewer colors) to the "full-color" logo format used by the Linux kernel. That is, its output is a text file that is suitable for replacing include/asm/linux_logo.h in standard Linux kernel distributions (versions 2.0 and up, probably). pngcrush Pngcrush is an optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It can be run from a commandline in an MSDOS window, or from a UNIX or LINUX commandline. Its main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT datastream by trying various compression levels an PNG filter methods. It also can be used to remove unwanted ancillary chunks, or to add certain chunks including gAMA, tRNS, iCCP, and textual chunks. pnmtopng Contains pnmtopng and pngtopnm, utilities for use with the rest of the PBMplus/NetPBM suit. ppmtoansi ppmtoansi converts an image in .ppm format to text with ANSI coloring. Uses could include viewing of picture attachments in the mutt e-mail client. pstoedit pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats. Ra-vec Ra-vec is a vectorising programme designed to rapidly prototype 3D worlds from line drawings, in particular architect's plans. Ra-vec creates a 2D vector file, describing the features in the plan. This can then be imported to AC3D and either extruded to produce a quick 3D environment, or used as the basis for a more detailed model. Rawstudio Rawstudio can read and convert RAW-images from many different cameras, including Nikon and Canon. It reads all dcraw supported formats, and has a realtime histogram. S3TC-BOXEN S3TC-BOXEN is a small tool that s3tc-compresses your bmp/jpg/png textures. sam2p sam2p is a UNIX command line utility written in ANSI C++ that converts many raster (bitmap) image formats into Adobe PostScript or PDF files. The images are not vectorized. sam2p gives full control to the user to specify standards-compliance, compression, and bit depths. shape2ge shape2ge is a set of two applications for converting ESRI shapefiles into Google Earth KML files. It consists of a batchable converter engine that reads conversion options from an XML config file generated by the front-end or other methods. The CLI-based front-end allows you set scales and offsets (from shapefile coords to earth coords), and also to assign different display styles to different feature types. Tex2im Tex2im is a simple tool that converts LaTeX formulas into high resolution pixmap graphics for inclusion in text processors or presentations. tiff2png tiff2png provides direct TIFF-to-PNG conversion capabilities in a single package. The primary goal was to preserve alpha (transparency) information, but scaling information is also preserved, and the compression setting can be set by the user. This is a command-line program with batch capabilities (e.g., ``tiff2png *.tiff''). Tiler Tiler is a really quick little GUI application for Win/Lin/* that can tile an image into a big image with customizable borders and such. tozwgc tozwgc is a small program that uses convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a picture from any format to a message that can be sent using Zephyr. tumble Tumble is a utility to construct PDF files from one or more image files. Supported input image file formats are JPEG, and black and white TIFF files (single- or multi-page). Black and white images will be encoded in the PDF output using lossless Group 4 fax compression (ITU-T recommendation T.6). This provides a very good compression ratio for text and line art. JPEG images will be preserved with the original coding. uml2svg uml2svg is an XSLT-based tool for converting XMI-compliant UML diagrams into SVG. UniConvertor UniConvertor is a universal vector graphics translator, which uses the sK1 engine to convert one format to another. There are import filters for CorelDraw (CDR and CMX), Adobe Illustrator (AI), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and some other formats, and export filters for AI, SVG, WMF, and sK1's own format. vec2web vec2web is a tool to convert vector drawings (DXF) to graphics which can be used on the Web (PNG).