Re: Macos Convert Mov To Mp4
Theodora Glime
I have seen posts on how to batch convert various documents to PDF via command line for both windows and linux. Now OSX being unix based I figure it must be similar to the linux posts but I have yet to figure out the correct syntax. Im using LibreOffice 4.0.0.3. on OSX 10.6.8. I aslo have access to Acrobat Pro 9 on this machine if someone knows of a better way to do the batch conversion and can point me in the right direction with that. Thanks in advance!
In my MacBook Pro mid-2010 running High Sierra 10.13.6, I'm upgrading the drive to a 1 GB SSD (SanDisk 3D SSD). I replaced the drive, booted with another external backup drive, formatted the new internal SSD to APFS, and then used Disk Utility to restore the old drive to the new.
This process converted the SSD to regular Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatting. When I select either the drive or the volume and go to Edit > Convert to APFS, it is greyed out. This happens whether I boot from the internal SSD or the old drive externally (both High Sierra).
Until now, Apple only supports converting HFS+ to APFS. If your drive has other file systems, the "Convert to APFS" option will be not available. But after testing, we found that not all features of HFS+ can be converted to APFS. When your drive is formatted to Mac OS X Extended (Case Sensitive), Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive, Journaled) or Mac OS Extended (Encrypted), the "Convert to APFS" option will be greyed out. So to fix the "Convert to APFS" option not available or greyed out issue, the only way to format your drive to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) or APFS directly.
If you have a MBR drive, you will have no chance to convert one of volumes to APFS. HFS+ can exist on MBR and GPT drive, but APFS is only supported on GPT. In this situation, you have to reformat MRB drive to GPT drive.
If one volume can't be mounted, it might have some serious file system corruptions which Mac computer can't recognize. As a result, the "Convert to APFS" option is not available or greyed out and you are not allowed to convert to APFS. To solve logical problem on a volume, reformatting is always the most effective way.
Technically, APFS conversion doesn't have any hardware restriction. Many people have discussed the "Convert to APFS" option not available or greyed out issue in different forums. Some people claimed that Fusion drive or traditional hard drive is not supported for APFS conversion. However, Apple developer explains in FAQ: "Apple File System is optimized for Flash/SSD storage, but can also be used with traditional hard disk drives (HDD) and external, direct-attached storage". So this news is not confirmed.
This command will convert images to heic and put converted images to "converted" folder. Here, the formatOptions argument sets output quality for the image. Value of 0 means most compressed and 100 means lossless.
Provided you have MS Word (or any other app that can open MS Word files) installed, you can use Automator. Here is a step by step guide on how to set it up for your needs: -to-batch-convert-doc-files-to-pdf-format-using-mac-osx-automator/
You can use the docx2pdf command line utility to batch convert docx to pdf on macOS (or windows). It uses Microsoft Word's APIs to directly convert to PDF creating a perfect copy. It uses JXA (Javscript for Automation, basically AppleScript in JS) in macOS and win32com in Windows.
If you make it as your default printer, then you just have to mass select all your files and do "Command" + "P" (shortcut). Mac OSX will open all files, send them to print in pdf, then close them = Simple and it works (on my Mac OS X 10.8.2 Montain Lion)
Unlike the Microsoft Word Macro method, you can do this for any other document created by any other program. As necessary, the Finder will open the appropriate application and tell it to print to the Virtual Printer.
(2) The document's default "Open With" application needs to support the AppleScript command for Print. All well-behaved MacOS X programs do this. NeoOffice for example doesn't, and thus batch converting native NeoOffice documents does not work for this printer icon method."
I had a similar situation, namely a folder of .doc (not .docx) files that needed to be batch converted to other formats such as .docx and .pdf using MacOSX 10.15.6 (Catalina). Products such as Doxillion could convert the files but much of the formatting was lost together with some of the text. I found that Pages could open the .doc files and made a pretty good job of maintaining the formatting and content when the files were exported. A solution using Automator and AppleScript to batch convert all .doc files in a folder is given by red_menace in response to question at: -path-to-file-in-applescript-script-as-part-of-automator-workflow
You can convert a song to a different file format (and keep a copy of the original). For example, you can save a copy of a compressed song file such as MP3 or AAC in an uncompressed song format (AIFF or WAV).
The Adobe DNG Converter enables you to easily convert camera-specific raw files from supported cameras to a more universal DNG raw file. Another benefit of using the DNG Converter is backward compatibility.
The DNG Converter is now available in your Programs (Windows) or Applications (macOS) directory. The installation utility is designed to also install a set of color profiles required for the DNG Converter to function properly. These profiles are copied to a common resource location.
A raw file contains the "raw" data captured by the digital camera sensor before it has been converted to JPEG or TIFF formats. Cameras that create JPEG or TIFF files process (and in the case of JPEG files, compress) the sensor data. When working with raw files, the file is not compressed or processed in the camera. Instead, software gives the user complete control over the conversion settings. For example, white balance is not applied to the raw file but is stored with the file so the software can default to the originally-intended setting. Other information contained in a DNG file includes standard EXIF metadata (just like in JPEG files), date, time, camera used, and camera settings.
Digital Negative (DNG) is an openly published raw file specification that stores the "raw" pixel data captured by the digital camera sensor before it has been converted to JPEG or TIFF formats, along with standard EXIF metadata, date, time, camera used, and camera settings. This format is freely available for other software and hardware vendors to support.
Unlike most manufacturer-specific raw formats, the Digital Negative is an openly published specification that not only is supported by Adobe, but is also freely available for other software and hardware vendors to support. Consequently, it can be a safer file format to use for long-term archival purposes. Archiving your file as a digital negative eliminates worries that the raw file will no longer be readable once the camera format that created it becomes obsolete.
The Digital Negative specification allows for not only all of the pixel information stored in current raw formats, but also for all of the additional, proprietary metadata that many manufacturers include. The Adobe DNG Converter may, in some cases, ignore some of this proprietary metadata, and only include the basic information necessary for creating a high-quality image file. The original raw file, however, can also be embedded in the new DNG format to ensure that proprietary metadata from the manufacturer is not lost.
I am trying to create artwork for screen printing. I need to convert the "Vistra" logo to curves and it is greyed out. I have tried this in Publisher, Designer and PHoto. Screen print said the shield is in vector, but the Vistra part is not. And I cannot upload my files here so you can see what I am trying to do.
Nothing is copyrighted. Please forgive my ignorance if this is a dumb question, but isn't a .eps file a vector graphic? That is what I placed in the document that I need to convert to curves. File just sits in uploading mode and doesn't actually attach.
Try Zipping your file and then attaching it to see if it will upload, failing that can you provide a URL to the logo in question or a reference to the website as there are many companies called Vistra...
I'm trying to use ur10_robot.urdf.xacro from this repository in ikpy which requires a URDF file to simulate the Inverse Kinematics. To my understanding XACRO is an XML based markup language containing macros which are expanded into a URDF file. Since I am using macOS and don't have access to a Ubuntu machine (or option to dual boot) at the moment, I have no way of compiling (?) this XACRO file into a URDF.
xacro is a fairly stand-alone Python program. Although the repository is set up as a ROS package, you could easily clone it, copy out the scripts/xacro file as xacro.py (not the existing xacro.py file) and the src/xacro directory as xacro/ to make something that would run from the current directory using python xacro.py [args]. That would allow you to do what you want to do. If you want to go one step further you could wrap it in a directory and a simple setup.py to make it a native Python package with about five minutes' work.
In fact I just had a look at PyPI and someone has done exactly that. It's a slightly older version from September 2018, but it will almost certainly be up-to-date enough for your needs. Install it using pip and you should be away laughing.
Thank you @gvdhoorn for the UR10 urdf. As @Geoff mentioned, xacro is fairly standalone. The dependencies such as rosgraph and roslaunch do not seem totally necessary, especially for someone like me who has access only to Windows temporarily and is working on generating simulations directly from Python without installing ROS as a whole. Do you suggest an alternate method with which I can convert xacro to URDF without using ROS/docker?
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