XnConvert runs on all Linux operating systems

Nov 10, 2014 15:12 GMT  ·  By

XnConvert is a free batch image processor that runs on multiple platforms and can process hundreds of different file types. It runs beautifully on Linux and provides a huge number of options.

If you are an avid Linux user, you already know pretty much all of the major applications out there. Usually, there are at least a couple of options for pretty much anything you want to do, but some domains are richer than others, like image editing and conversions.

It's not difficult to find an image editor on Linux. In fact, there are quite a few of those, but batch converting and editing are a different story.

Let's say you have 100 images and you need to scale, convert, and apply a watermark on them. The obvious choice, if you're on Ubuntu, might be Phatch. This is a great application when it's not conflicting with the Python version installed.

It works on other distros, but it hasn't been updated for quite some time. There are also scripts for ImageMagick, and of course, there is always the terminal, but sometimes you don't have the time. This is where XnConvert comes into play.

XnConvert is a powerful tool

The XnConvert conversion tool is not as famous as it should be. It's probably the best of its kind, and that is true even if we only take into consideration just the number of implemented features. It works basically the same on all the available platforms – Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

"Combine and choose between more than 80 different operations including Metadata Editing, Rotate, Crop, Resize, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Blur, Emboss, Masking, Watermark, Vignetting, and more. Samlessly export to NConvert for a command line usage," reads the official website.

XnConvert covers more than 500 image formats and it can handle pretty much anything that you throw at it. The devs have a comprehensive list of all the formats supported by the application, for anyone who wants to check.

The developers provide packages in RPM and DEB format for the major distributions, but a TGZ file is also ready for download, in case you want to compile it. You can download all these files from Softpedia. The latest XnConvert version is 1.66 and it was released just a few months ago.

If you have an Ubuntu system, you can either double click the DEB file and let Ubuntu Software Center take care of it, or you can use the terminal and enter these commands:

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sudo dpkg -i XnConvert-linux-x64.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
Enjoy!

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