A couple of months ago, Italian developer Francesco Mondello had had enough. He had a host of digital images, but they weren’t identical in size or even in format. Converting them to a consistent format one by one would have been a tedious task. Instead, to improve his programming skills, Mondello built Converseen, a batch image conversion tool that lets users convert and resize multiple images automatically. It’s easy to use, and allows you to convert images in a lot of different formats.
Mondello employed the Qt4 framework and ImageMagick libraries in Converseen. “I used Qt4 because it’s easy to use and powerful, and allows you to create software that fits in well with the look and feel of KDE and GNOME,” he says. He posted the project on SourceForge.net because “it’s the best way to share open source software. I appreciate being able to create a web site for my project, and I love the download counter.” To publicize its availability, Mondello announces new releases on Qt-Apps, freshmeat, and on the project’s web site. The most recent version was released last week.
In its current stage of development Converseen only lets users convert and resize images. “I’m planning to add advanced features like image rotation, cropping, and accurate resizing, maybe in a graphical way,” Mondello says. “I will feel ready for 1.0 release when I add these features and when I’m sure of its stability, though so far I haven’t had many bug reports.”
Mondello would welcome help with translations, and “I would like to compile Converseen on Windows, but I have some compiling problems. Since I’m a beginner programmer I can’t interpret these errors!” If you’d like to help, the best way to get in touch is via email.