'Convert Image' is a simple to use, yet sophisticated image conversion and manipulation utility specifically designed to convert and transform graphic files. If you need to convert one or thousands of files, located in one or many different folders, into a variety of different file types, this is the tool.  The most popular task our customers perform is to convert TIFFs.

'Convert Image' can be especially useful if you require complicated conversion jobs done on a regular basis. By saving and recalling a conversion job file, 'Convert Image' quickly remembers all the conversion tasks and their details. Also, 'Convert Image' may be run from the command line allowing for use in batch files or can be launched from within other programs.

In addition to doing file conversion, 'Convert Image' also has features to further enhance its usefulness. For example, whole folders and sub-folders of files may be specified for conversion. Also, you can choose to place the converted files within the original folder or another folder of your choice.

In addition to file conversion, many special processes have been included. These are:

• Manipulate: Resize, rotate, flip, shift, perspective, skew, twirl and more!

• Color: Autocontrast, autolevel, hue, contrast, saturation, desaturation, blue, green, red, gamma, invert and more!

• Special effects: Add noise, diffuse, dilation, emboss, erode, blur, mosaic, relief, texturize and more!

• Filters: High pass, Low pass, Laplas, Line detection, and more!

• Launch (Run) a program. This includes file operations such as delete, copy, etc.
  
  'Convert Image' can be run from the command line allowing for use of batch files as well as launching programmatically from other programs.

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• Convert images of many types. Convert JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, EMF, PNG, PCX, TGA, ICO, CUR, ANI, WMF, RAS, J2K. JPG Converter tools. GIF Converter Software.
• Resize, rotate, flip, shift, perspective, skew, twirl and more!
• Numerous special effects and filters
• Easy to use for graphic file conversion. Windows Explorer enabled.
• Save and restore complex conversion configurations
• Supports recursive subfolders
• All parameters, including source and target files, conversion options etc. are persistent across runs of the program
• Batch can be stopped midway and resumed at a later time 
• Can be adapted for all languages
• Complete flexibility, complete power
• Command line (Invisible at runtime) for use in scripts, many examples given (copy and paste)
• COM Interface for use in scripts

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Convert Image Command Line

Command Line Explained  
 

'Convert Image' can be run without a user interface with command line arguments much like in the good old DOS days.  Alternatively you can initiate command line execution by going to the operating system's 'command prompt' or within Windows from the START-RUN menu and typing it in there.  Lastly, the command line interface can be used from Batch files (files with *.BAT extension). 

 There are two approaches to doing the command line:

A)  Specify a 'Conversion Job' that was built using the graphical user interface (GUI)

B)   Specify a 'Conversion Task' in detail

Specifying a 'Conversion Job' is very easy, as you only need to tell 'Convert Image' where to find the associated *.SII 'Conversion Job' file.  All the details associated with this task are executed in one fell swoop.

Specifying a 'Conversion Task' is much more tedious, but does not require the prior creation of a 'Conversion Job' file.

Each approach is discussed in more detail below.

IMPORTANT: To use the command line successfully the operating system will need to know where exactly the application is located. Otherwise, you'll see the following error:

"ConvertImage" is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."

We suggest you do one of the following:

A)    Set the path in your operating system’s environment variables to the installation location of ConvertImage.EXE. See your operating system’s help for setting the path.

B)    Create a batch file (a text file whose file name ends in .bat) that uses the fully qualified path of ConvertImage.EXE.

For example the following is a typical batch file:

"C:\Program Files\Softinterface, Inc\Convert Image\ConvertImage.EXE" /S "C:\In\Coffee.bmp" /T "C:\Out\Mocha.gif" /F2 /C4 /V

Specifying a 'Conversion Job'
The syntax for specifying a 'Conversion Job'  is:

 ConvertImage /J{ConversionJobFile}  [/V] [/L{LogFile}] [/B{LogToJobFile}]

Items above enclosed in square brackets “[ ]” are optional, all other ‘switches’ are required.  Therefore /J should always be specified on the command line.

 Example:

To run the 'Conversion Job' specified by "C:\MyJobs\Convert JPG to Tiff.SII" type the following in at the 'Command Prompt':

 ConvertImage /J "C:\MyJobs\Convert JPG to Tiff.SII"

You can include or exclude spaces between switches and parameters.  For example,  "/F6" is the same as "/F  6".  For long file names you may be required to use double quotes.  For example /J "C:\Program Files\MyApp\convert JPG to Tiff.SII".
 

Specifying a 'Conversion Task'
 

The syntax for the command line for specifying a conversion task is:

 

ConvertImage /S{Original File(s)} /T{Target File(s)} [/F#] [/C#] [/G] [/R] [/L{LogFile}] [/B{LogToJobFile}] [/V] [/Z] [/1-9]  [/P#] [/a-j]

 

Items above enclosed in square brackets “[ ]” are optional, all other ‘switches’ are required.  Therefore /S, /T  should always be specified on the command line.  There are two exceptions, however, and they are:

A)      /F /C are required if you are not using file names with standard file extensions (standard file extensions are jpg, tif, gif, etc).  For example if you working with bitmap files with file names like mybitmap.abc then you definitely need to specify the /F and/or /C switch.

B)      when /G (Save to original folder) is specified, the /T switch is not necessary.

You can include or exclude spaces between switches and parameters.  For example, "/F6" is the same as "/F  6".  For long file names you may be required to use double quotes.  For example, /S "C:\Program Files\MyApp\MyImage.JPG".  Command switches are case sensitive, therefore /F is completely different from /f.

 

/S{Original File(s)} is used to specify which files to convert.  You can specify a single file, or in some cases a whole set of files using the wildcard syntax (i.e. "C:\MyFiles\*.BMP").   /T{Target files} should always be different from /S{Original File(s)}.

 

/T{Target File(s)} is used to specify where to save the converted file(s) to.  You can specify a single file, or in some cases a whole set of files using the wildcard syntax (i.e. "C:\MyFiles\*.BMP").   /T{Target files} should always be different from /S{Original File(s)}.

 

/F# tells ‘Convert Image’ what the original file type is.  You must supply a number for the # symbol.  Remember the original file, specified by the /S{Original File(s)} switch, has an extension which determines it’s file type.   For all constants see File Type Constants.

 

/C# tells ‘Convert Image’ what the target file type is.  You must supply a number for the # symbol.  Remember the target file, specified by the /T{Target File(s)} switch, has an extension which determines it’s file type.   For all constants see File Type Constants.

 

[/G] Save files to their original folders.  Use this instead of /T to place the converted files in the same folder as the original file.  This cannot be used when converting a single, specified file from within a folder.  Use the /T switch instead.

 

[/R] Seek out and do all files found in the sub-folders specified in the /S switch.  Recursive subdirectories.  You may add this switch if you are processing whole directories of files.  See /S, /T and /G for more details on selecting whole directories to be converted.

 

[/L{LogFile}] Log file path and name (i.e. d:\mylogs\CITP.LOG) If this switch is specified a log file with the given path and name will be created and the results of the conversion will be written to it.  See also /V.

 

[/B{LogToJobFile}]   Save the Log file as a 'Conversion Job' ONLY IF ERRORS OCCURRED.  This is useful if the files that had problems can be done at a later time, or with a different method.  /B is different from /L, since the file generated with /B will not include extraneous comments not allowed in a 'Conversion Job' file.  Save as a .SII file type so it can be loaded as a job.

 

[/V] Verbose mode.  Specify this switch to display a message box indicating how the conversion went.  See also /L.

 

[/Z] Verbose Log. All file operations will be recorded in the log.

 

[/1] TIFF: Pages to convert.  For example if you have a multipage TIFF and you want to convert the 1^st and 3^rd page use “/1 1,3”. To do pages 2-5 use “/1 2-5” .

[/2] TIFF: Compression to use when converting TO a TIFF file (default is no compression).  Use “/2 0” for no compression and “/2 1” for LZW compression.

0 - No compression. Save image as 24bpp uncompressed TIFF file.

1 - LZW. Save image as 24bpp TIFF file with LZW compression.

2 - RLE. Save image as 1bpp TIFF file with RLE compression.

3 - CCITT3. Save image as 1bpp TIFF file with CCITT3 compression.

4 - CCITT4. Save image as 1bpp TIFF file with CCITT4 compression.

[/3] TIFF: Append to existing when converting to a TIFF.  Use ”/3 TRUE” to append ”/3 FALSE” not to.

[/4] JPEG: Quality of the resulting JPG from 0 to 100 (default is 100).  0 is lowest and 100 is highest quality.  The higher the quality the larger the resulting target file.  Use “/4 100” for highest quality.

[/5] TAG: TITLE of the image. For example to associate the title of “President” to the resulting image use “/5 President” .

[/6] TAG: DESCRIPTION of the image. For example to associate the description of “Money is the product of a humans capacity to think” to the resulting image use “/6 Money is the product of a humans capacity to think” .

[/7] TAG: DATE/TIME of the image. For example to associate the date/time “July 4^th 1976” to the resulting image use “/7 July 4^th 1976” .

[/8] TAG: AUTHOR of the image. For example to associate the author  “Krishnamurti” to the resulting image use “/8 Krishnamurti” .

[/9] TAG: COPYRIGHT of the image. For example to associate the copyright  “Copyright 2005, Softinterface” to the resulting image use “/9 Copyright 2005, Softinterface”.

/P# Special Process Identifier. An integer, which tells 'Convert Image' which special process to apply to the Original (input) files.  For example /P2 tells ‘Convert Image’ to resize an image.  /P is almost always used with /a- /j switches. See table below for a list of all Special Processes.

[/a- /j] These parameters compliment the /P switch which tells ‘Convert Image’ which special process to perform.  /a- /j are used to specify additional parameters that may be necessary for the special process being done.  For example /P2 tells ‘Convert Image’ to resize an image.  In this case /a is used to specify the width, /b is used to specify the height, /c is used to specify the method of interpolation and /d is used to specify the background color. This might end up looking like:

ConvertImage /SC:\Input\Tryme.jpg /TC:\Output\Out.jpg /P2 /a10 /b20 /c2 /d0 /V

 

 

 

Image File Type Constants for Use with /F# and /C#

 

 

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