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Converseen 0.5.3 (KDE Graphic Tool)

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Converseen 0.5.3
(KDE Graphic Tool)
Converseen is an open source project written in C++ with the powerful Qt4 libraries.
Thanks to the Magick++ image libraries it supports more than 100 image formats.
You can convert an unlimited number of images and / or create thumbnails
to any of the most popular formats: DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF.
With Converseen you can save your time because it allows you to process more than one image with a mouse click!
Converseen is very simple: it features a very simple user interface without strange options.

With converseen you can:
Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
Resize one or more images.
Compress images for your web pages.

Converseen depends on Qt4 and Magick++ libraries.

If you appreciate this work and would like to support the project, you are welcome to donate money via Paypal: http://converseen.sourceforge.net/#donations

Converseen is available for the following platforms:

  • Archlinux
  • Chakra Linux
  • Fedora
  • Mageia
  • Opensuse
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows XP/Vista/7
  • changelog:
    0.5.3 – 2013-02-12
    – Now it works with ImageMagick >= 6.8.0
    – Added russian translation

    0.5.2 – 2012-11-12
    – Fixed a bug with the overwrite option on Windows
    – Updated the german translation

    0.5.1 – 2012-07-02
    – Fixed a bug with density/resolution settings
    – Updated translations (Hungarian, Czech, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish)

    0.5 – 2012-06-05
    – New and highly optimized graphical user interface
    – Improved thumbnail generation
    – Possibility to resize different image formats without changing the destination formats
    – Possibility to choose a background color when converting images to formats that don’t support alpha channel like jpeg files.
    – Possibility to override transparency with an arbitrary color
    – Improved conversion process
    – Now, at the end of the conversion process, the destination folder(s) can be opened with a click
    – All the interface attributes are automatically saved
    – Fixed the bug with dotted filenames
    – Both tif and tiff formats can be opened
    – Other GUI improvements
    – Various bug fixed

    0.4.9 – 2012-01-31
    – Fixed a bug with special characters

    0.4.8 – 2012-01-10
    – Fixed a bug in picture previewer

    0.4.7 – 2011-12-01
    – Optimized GUI for small screen resolutions (netbooks)
    – Fixed overwriting with upper suffixes
    – Now the window geometry is saved

    0.4.6 – 2011-09-13
    – Fixed a bug with the overwriting option

    0.4.5 – 2011-09-12
    – Modified the code to work in Windows
    Added Turkish translation
    – Added support for Cmake

    0.4.3 – 2011-08-03
    – Added service menu for Kde
    – Fixed overwriting with upper suffixes
    – Added Spanish (Chile) translation

    0.4.2 – 2011-06-28
    – Fixed overwriting dialog when the renaming option is enabled.

    0.4.1 – 2011-03-10
    – Improved picture previewer
    – If the output folder doesn’t exists it will be created

    0.4 – 2011-02-11
    – Added thread support to image conversions.
    – Added a progress …read more
    Source: FULL ARTICLE at KDE Apps

    Google aims to win developers over to new image format WebP

    (Phys.org)—In 2011, news circulated over Google’s enhancements to WebP, the image format set to outdistance JPEG and, with more features in a newer version, to take on Portable Network Graphics, another graphics format. The promotional point has been that WebP can create smaller, better-looking images that can help make the web faster. Now, a Thursday posting on The Chromium Blog shows how Google is actively promoting WebP, hoping that developers and other allies will see its edge. Google announced that it started using WebP in its Chrome Web Store, with impressive results. “The Chrome Web Store uses many large promotional images and tiles on its home page, making it a very heavyweight page,” wrote Stephen Konig, Product Manager, in the blog, “Using WebP to Improve Speed.” …read more
    Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org