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NConvert User Guide

NConvert is a multi-format command-line image converter available for various platforms, with the latest release being 7.12 from May 2017. It allows users to convert images between different formats, resize images, and utilize scripts for batch processing. Limitations include certain features being exclusive to Win32 and potential memory issues when handling large images.

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NConvert User Guide

NConvert is a multi-format command-line image converter available for various platforms, with the latest release being 7.12 from May 2017. It allows users to convert images between different formats, resize images, and utilize scripts for batch processing. Limitations include certain features being exclusive to Win32 and potential memory issues when handling large images.

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1 NConvert User Guide
Latest release: 7.12 / Download / May 2017
Website: [Link]
Forum: [Link]

Download Reference Manual as PDF

NConvert is the multi-format commandline image converter for Win32, Linux, DOS, OS/2, and other platforms.

• Type "nconvert -help" for available options.

• Type "nconvert -help > [Link]" to save the help text into the file "[Link]".

• Convert files to a specific format

nconvert -out tiff [Link] [Link] [Link]

• Convert GIF files to JPEG files

nconvert -out jpeg -truecolors *.gif

• Convert JPEG files to GIF files

nconvert -out gif -dither -colors 256 *.jpeg

• Convert with a resize

nconvert -out png -resize 510 230 *.jpeg


nconvert -out png -ratio -resize 510 0 *.jpeg
nconvert -out png -ratio -resize 0 510 *.jpeg
nconvert -out png -resize 200% 200% *.jpeg

• You can use it with images sequences.

For example, to convert the files [Link], [Link], ..., [Link] and we convert to jpeg format with the name pattern [Link], res1.j
nconvert -out jpeg -n 1 10 1 -o res#.jpg file##.pic

• You can use % to specify source filename in dest filename.

For example, nconvert -out jpeg -o result_%.jpg [Link] creates a file named result_file.jpg

Note for Windows users: In batch files you must write %% instead of %. To bypass this problem, you can use a nconvert script instead of a batc

• You can control nconvert with a script, performing multiple sets of conversions on multiple sets of files, example:

### -out png -rtype lanczos -resize 200% 150%

[Link]
[Link]
[Link]
### -out gif -rtype lanczos -resize 500% 500% -oil 10 -colours 32
F:\icons\[Link]
### -out bmp -rtype lanczos -resize 30% 30% -oil 2 -rotate_flag smooth -rotate 45
[Link]
[Link]

Save this into a text file, for example "[Link]", and then run nconvert with this file as the only parameter: "nconvert [Link]" .

Limitations:

♦ Add text feature uses the Win32 API and is avaiable on Win32 only.
♦ Some exotical image formats use external DLL's and are available on Win32 only.
♦ When using a script file, avoid multiple spaces in the conversion definitions, they confuse the parser.
♦ Converting huge images, or scaling up to a huge size requires much memory and may not always work.

Notes for DOS users:

Since version 4.90, nconvert is supported for DOS again. It is a 32-bit DOS application, using the "DOS/32A Extender".

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