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| KingLancelot wrote:
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| daneel_w wrote:
| I've made use of sips(1) for years to un/bundle application icons
| for build processes and other things. Great tool, more or less
| unknown like so many other hidden userland gems in macOS.
| torstenvl wrote:
| Same. I use sips as part of my build process. The package
| target depends on the binary target and the icns target, which
| depends on the iconset target, which uses sips.
| giantrobot wrote:
| I've found sips very helpful dealing with JPEG 2000 images in
| places where ImageMagick would not render them correctly.
|
| Another very helpful Mac utility is textutil which will convert
| text documents between different formats. It uses the same
| underlying frameworks as TextEdit so it's not a replacement for
| {Microsoft,Libre}Office but it can spit out an OpenOffice
| document from an RTF or Word document in a pinch.
| arrakeen wrote:
| at first i thought this was some sort of wrapper around vips[1]
| which is extremely powerful, but whose CLI leaves a lot to be
| desired. even so, i make use of it quite a bit. here's how i'd
| convert the webps to png: parallel vips copy {}
| {.}.png ::: *.webp
|
| [1] https://www.libvips.org/API/current/using-cli.html
| gouggoug wrote:
| Is there a place listing all these little known but useful macOS
| utilities?
| lelandfe wrote:
| Undermentioned macOS feature: right click an image in Finder,
| Quick Actions > Convert Image. Lets you change formats, resize,
| and strip metadata from images, and supports bulk operations too.
| foverzar wrote:
| I've always used ImageMagick for this kind of stuff.
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