Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware

• amphy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What you recommend in terms of offline open-source converters?

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Pandoc for documents, ffmpeg for video , imagemagick for images

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    • prayer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What image types are you using that ffmpeg can’t convert? To my knowledge it works for almost anything.

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Gonna be honest, never used ffmpeg for images lol. I take images from PDFs that have transparency and they come out of pdfimages with an opaque greyscale alpha mask and an opaque image. I found it easy to apply the mask with imagemagick, though. Ffmpeg can probably do it but just never had a use case. I just use cwebp to convert because that’s my primary use-case: converting pngs to lossy webp files and cwebp is good enough for me for that:)

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  • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What are you looking to convert?

    Usually what i do is look for any converter and look for open source alternatives to it on alternative.net and hopefully one of the top 3 alternatives fits your use case

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    • quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Psst the URL is: alternativeto.net I always stop here first to research what software options there are available and also learning what other people are using. Extremely useful and trustworthy site!

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      • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Thanks i dropped the “to”

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