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> I built WebPtoPNG after getting frustrated with converters that throttle uploads or phone data Why would you want to do it in a browser anyway? Just run it l
by breve 10mo ago
> I built WebPtoPNG after getting frustrated with converters that throttle uploads or phone data
Why would you want to do it in a browser anyway? Just run it local. There are many open source image editors and converters to choose from.
ImageMagick is one: https://imagemagick.org/ https://imagemagick.org/
GIMP is another: https://www.gimp.org/ https://www.gimp.org/
Krita is another: https://krita.org/en/ https://krita.org/en/
- zipping1549 10mo agoWhy use GUI at all? ffmpeg does it one-liner, a very long one.
- RealStickman_ 10mo agoImagemagick also does it in the terminal. Chances are about as good as ffmpeg that you have it installed already
- xeonmc 10mo agoPeople don't want to install/download/vet reputation of local apps for spontaneous, one-off tasks.
- baobun 10mo ago50/50 you have either ImageMagick or ffmpeg installed already.
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- breve 10mo agoBut people will vet a website that has the potential to change every day? Each time you visit the site the behaviour could be different. Vetting the site every time you use it would be profoundly tedious. When you install an application you can vet the version you want to use, keep the installer so you can always reinstall the same version, and it only changes when you change it. That's much better control. Luckily, all of the image editors I listed are well known and trustworthy. They're good tools. You're much better off learning them and making full use of their capability than using some limited web based image converter.
- bcye 10mo agoYou only need to vet the website if you care about the privacy of the picture, and a website is run in a reliably sandboxed environment, whereas local tools run with much more elevated permissions.
- pwdisswordfishy 10mo agoAlthough I can't speak for everyone, my browser runs locally.