An overview to programs which convert data from one format to another. Some simply take a file to convert - and others can be used in a chain of commands as a filter.

The converters on this page use various text formats and graphics formats. Some are about music files.

No converters for fonts, natural languages or program code, though. No libraries for conversion programs, and no perl modules. Now, there's an idea for *your* webpage, eh? ;-)

Mac/Unix/Win EOLs
• dos2ux:, ux2dos: ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/ibmpc/dos2ux.shar
• mcvert - A Mac to Unix file converter
• recode

ASCII Filters
• banner
• boxes
• charconv ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/unix/misc/charconv.tar.gz
• cowsay
• figlet
• sed http://www.guckes.net/sed/
• uudeview

Mail Formats
• mb2md - Converting Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format
• mhonarc - Mail to HTML converter

structured "text" documents

Images
• convert - converts images between formats (part of ImageMagick)
• fblogo - Converts images to framebuffer-logo header file
• flip - convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats
• gbase - small numeric base converter
• giflib-bin - programs to convert GIF images
• giftrans - Convert any GIF file into a GIF89a
• gimp-dimage-color - GIMP plugin to convert Minolta DiMAGE pictures to sRGB colorspace
• hp2xx - A HPGL converter into some vector- and raster formats
• jpeg2ps - Convert JPEG compressed images to PostScript Level 2
• kview - KDE simple image viewer/converter
• libungif-bin - programs to convert GIF images

Sound
• kmidi - midi-to-wav player/converter for KDE
• mp32ogg - Converts MP3 file to Ogg Vorbis
• sox http://www.spies.com/Sox/
• vsound - Virtual loopback sound recorder and real audio converter
• wav2cdr - Converts wav files into CD-ROM audio file format.
• wdq2wav - Converts a WinDAQ channel to sound .wav file

All Converters - Listed Alphabetically

TODO

strings         "strings foo.doc | vim -"


 031111 
 WP2LaTeX 
 Version  

http://www.penguin.cz/~fojtik/wp2latex/wp2latex.htm


Word Perfect to LaTeX

Word Processor Filters

http://www.w3.org/Tools/Word_proc_filters.html

A comprehensive list of converters/filters. Last change seems to be of 1999-03-19 (some 4.5 years ago), though.

We Can Put an End to Word Attachments

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

How to react to DOC attachments. written by Richard M. Stallman, Jan 2002

Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification, version 1.6

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec.asp?frame=true

RTF specs including reference implementation of RTF reader [May 1999]

"Summary: The Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification provides a format for text and graphics interchange that can be used with different output devices, operating environments, and operating systems. RTF uses the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), PC-8, Macintosh, or IBM PC character set to control the representation and formatting of a document, both on the screen and in print. With the RTF Specification, documents created under different operating systems and with different software applications can be transferred between those operating systems and applications. (248 printed pages)"

                http://dataconv.org/apps_office.html
filters project http://arturo.directmail.org/filters [obsolete]
M$ viewers:     http://office.microsoft.com/Assistance/9798/viewerscvt.aspx

abcde - A Better CD Encoder
atp - text to PostScript converter with some C syntax highlighting
btoa - Convert binary to ascii and vice versa

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