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Conversion of GRIB and NetCDF to my database
image: http://i.imgur.com/lgV9A.png (my first question, so I can't atach it yet)
I have downloaded "High Resolution Initial Conditions" climate forecast data for one day, it was in extension .tar.gz ...
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How to convert .sub file to image file?
When I open a .sub file with SubResync, it shows the subtitles of a video file in "images":
Basically, I want to convert those subtitles into text form. However character recognition converters ...
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PowerISO hangs at 0% for hours, kills computer when converting CD to an ISO file
I need to convert a CD I have to an ISO image but when I use PowerISO it stays at 0% and glitches up my computer (IE9 lags, Windows Explorer stops responding, etc.). It stays at 0% for three hours so ...
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How to convert cue/bin files to ISO format? [closed]
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How to really convert cue/bin files to ISO format?
I have the same problem as How to really convert cue/bin files to ISO format?
I found this here: How do I convert ...
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ffmbc decrease volume by 5dB
how do I use ffmbc to decrease the input video volume by 5dB?
FFmpeg has option 'volume' that accepts values like '2' for multiplying by 2 and '-12dB' for volume decrease by 12dB.
In FFmbc I tried ...
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convert mac .pages file to .pdf or .html preserving hyperlinks
Just wondering if anyone knows how to convert a .pages file to a .pdf or .html file while preserving the hyperlinks within the document. I can export it to .PDF (using Lion 10.7.3) but and the links ...
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IDE to SATA converter not working
I got a IDE to SATA converter via Amazon, however when I hooked it all up the computer doesn't recognize the optical drive on windows 7 64bit. The only indication that the computer knows that it can ...
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Can I convert a 64 bit Windows to 32 bit Windows?
Is it possible to convert 64 bit Windows 7 to 32 bit Windows 7 keeping the settings and installed software where they were ?
I am not interested in virtual machine based options.
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Why does video conversion make my video look like an old movie?
I have downloaded some videos from you tube of a boxing match. It looks fine on You tube. After I download and convert the video, the sudio is fine and matches the video but the actual video looks ...
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How to play a .MKV 3D Video on my 3DTV?
I have a 3D movie on my computer hard drive. I've tried to stream it to my TV but that does'nt work because of the .MKV extension, so how do I play it on my TV? Can I burn it to DVD? Do I have to ...
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convert virtualbox to parallels
I have a virtualbox xp vm and I want to convert try using it on parallels. That's the opposite of this question. What is the best method? My host OS is ubuntu 12.04.
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SATA dvd writter for IDE only motherbord
I have recently purchased LG sata DVD writer but when i have opened my cpu to connect it i did not found any sata port. I think my machine is old so does not have the configuration for the sata ...
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Getting N jpeg images from N-Pages PDF
I've a PDF composed by N pages.
I want to convert this PDF in N jpeg images (by command line, no Php, Java or other programming languages).
I'm trying to do this with GHOSTSCRIPT but the output ...
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How to convert HTML tags to RTF or any rich format text from the Linux command line
How can I convert HTML tags to rtRTF or any rich format text using sed or any linux command-line tool?
I've achieved to strip them with sed 's/<[^>]*>//g', but I need the ...
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Linux convert jpeg to bmp, xsetroot complains “bad bitmap format”, how to fix this?
I am creating a JPEG file, converting to BMP then using with xsetroot, but that is failing.
1) Make a JPEG file
$ convert -size 800x600 xc:transparent \
-font Bookman-DemiItalic -pointsize ...
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Multithreaded TIFF to PNG conversion
I'm working with images of scanned books, so hundreds of high resolution pictures. I'm doing conversion work with Photoshop Elements - I can quickly save them to uncompressed TIFF, but converting to ...
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Export hundreads of email (.PST) and convert into PDF - Possible?
Would it be possible to extract/archive emails from MS Outlook 2003 and then, have them all converted into PDF files? The only thing I know that could work is doing that process one email by one... ...
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How to convert PDF to html/epub without some artifacts on Mac
I have a bunch of old PDF files (reports, etc, text-only) that I'd like to be able to read on my Kindle. I can do the automatic conversion however - the pages have, for example, page numbers on the ...
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convert scanned physics maths pages to text
How to convert this image to text format with maximum accuracy , most OCR are not able to convert ^ and vector and proportional sign.
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LPT port using USB
I have a machine which connects to PC with LPT port.
And in the program I am selecting port number on which is LPT port connected, something like etc. ( a326 ).
Now I have bought LPT to USB ...
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Converting MP3 files to small size
Is it ok to convert a MP3 file from 128kbps to 80kbps vbr? I mean, will there be a difference if I convert 1411kbps WAV to 80kbps MP3 vbr? How much will be that difference?
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How to convert pcm to mp3?
I have some .pcm files and I want to convert them on high quality .mp3 format. I tried to find tools by Google search but did not get the right one for me. I will prefer the freeware but if there is ...
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Can LibreOffice Base odb databases migrate to SQL server?
If I make a LibreOffice Base database in its native ODB format, is it possible to later migrate the database to a SQL server such as PostgreSQL??? If so, how?
Thanks!
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Flatten Word document
I have a document with some precise formatting, created in Word. This doc was converted to PDF for distribution. Now the original is lost, and reconverting to Word using a PDF to word add-on from ...
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How can I divert audio from jack to USB port?
I have a problem with the fact that my Dell Laptop has the jack audio output uncomfortably to the front, and I always bump the jack with my knee. Is there any possibility to divert the audio stream ...
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CHM e-book cover extraction
I would like to extract a "book cover image" from a series of CHM files, which command line tool can do that, please?
I have looked at the source of the QuickLook plug-in "quickchm1.1_source" and at ...
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How does Adobe convert WAV to MP3?
When using Adobe's programs (Flash for example) to convert WAV audio to MP3 there is no silent gap added to the beginning of the MP3 file like it is when I for example use LAME (when using LAME a ...
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Covert WAV to MP3 without adding silence at the beginning
Here's whay I need to do: Convert a 30.0 sec WAV to a 30.0 MP3.
I've tried doing this using LAME however no matter what I try LAME always adds a short moment of silence to the output mp3. Using LAME ...
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Convert text files recursively to UTF-8 in PowerShell
I have a folder with text files which includes other folders in it, and these also contain some text files. I need to recursively convert all these files to UTF-8 encoding in PowerShell and preserve ...
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Inserting SVG files in a Word DOC
How can I convert or insert an Inkscape SVG file to a Microsoft Word document?
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Converting PDF to HTML without specialized software
Is there a way convert PDF files to HTML without having to use specialized PDF-to-HTML software?
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Convert PDF background color
I have a PDF that has black font and the default white background (or no color). The glare from the monitor hurst my eye after long time reading it, even though I lower the brightness of the computer.
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Converting a word document to XML format while preserving font information
I need to convert a Word document into an easily parseable format, so I chose XML. I found a tool which works, but it doesn't tell me which font the text is, which is my main method of parsing. Is ...
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How to convert Word (doc) to PDF from Windows command line?
Anyone know how to convert word files (.doc) to PDF using the command line in Windows?
We were using the service of OpenOffice, but in documents that have many tables and images, it ends up ruining ...
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Converting RGB to CMYK color profile in GIMP
I want to convert an sRGB image in gimp to CMYK.
Heres what I did:
Downloaded CMYK color profiles from Adobe.
Extracted them in the icc folder (/usr/share/color/icc/)
I opened my xcf image in gimp ...
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Is there a way to convert ASCII math into easily viewable text, e.g. to LaTeX?
I'm trying to find a way to format equations so they're easy to view, so LaTeX isn't a requirement, just an example.
I'd like it to leave alone the line breaks and to have a way of recognising ...
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Quick! Where can I upload a file so a simple-minded printer can download it later, or convert a pdf / MS Word into a high quality image file?
This is an embarrassingly dumb question, but it's getting urgent:
I had time to kill at the office, so I designed a nice Valentine's Day card for my wife. Now I just need to print it out. It's in ...
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Convert .doc or .rtf to clean HTML on OS X
When I export a file from Word or TextEdit, I get very bloated HTML, full of crazy style tags on every paragraph, so I can't even clean it by hand.
The only information I want preserved is:
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Looking for software that will batch convert a folder tree containing CHM files in different folders to EPUB
I have a folder tree with varying folder levels and within each folder are a number of CHM files (Compiled HTML files). I would like a tool to batch convert all of these to EPUB (book) by just ...
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How can I make the following conversion in VLC from the commandline?
I find the command line documentation a little overwhelming, given that I know almost nothing about codecs and the like...
So the following is exactly what I'm doing in VLC (1.1.11) and it would be ...
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Batch producing PDFs from a sequence of URLs/multiple URLs
Does anyone know of a way of making PDFs from a sequence of URLS/multiple URLs for webpages? For example, I want to print individual PDFs from a batch of webpages via their URLs. Is there an ...
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How to convert mounted filesystem between codepages?
I have an external drive formatted in ext3 (basically) that previously was connected to a Linksys NLSU2 NAS device. Now the NSLU2 is broken and I have struggled to restore the files on the disk ...
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How to use pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text?
How to use an external program such as pandoc to convert a block of text in Emacs from Markdown to Wiki text (as used by Mediawiki), and substitute the content in situ?
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x264 encoding speed, what should my expectations be?
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) on an HP Pavillion dv3 with core2duo 2.29 GHz, NVidia Geforce G105M (512MB) with CUDA and 4GB RAM. I have the latest versions of ffmpeg and x264.
I recognise that ...
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How to convert a photo without losing quality?
I have to convert a bmp into another standard format, without losing quality. To which format shall I convert it to?
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Convert Mathematica to PDF via command line
I am on Linux and would like to convert a bunch of Mathematica 8 Notebooks to PDF.
Is there some way to convert them on the command line? I'd like to write a makefile rule for the conversion, so that ...
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How do I convert an SVG to a PDF on Linux
How do I convert and SVG (containing a a few words of latin text and some simple vector graphics) to a PDF on Linux?
I tried Inkscape 0.47 on Ubuntu Lucid, but it moves some sub-graphics randomly, ...
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What causes 3 special characters after conversion to UTF-8?
One of our work steps involves saving an MS Excel worksheet as CSV and then using UltraEdit to convert the CSV to UTF-8 before importing it into a server system.
The problem is that, after the ...
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Free DJVU to PDF converter on that does not make a gigantic PDF
The answers to this question are not satisfactory for me, since they either make a gigantic PDF and/or cost money.
Either Windows or Linux is fine.
If this is a hard/impossible software problem for ...
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Batch convert AppleWorks files into PDF within originating folder, delete original file?
Probably AppleScript is the way to go with this - I have found scripts online that do this, but snag on oversize printable area and put files in the same folder - I need files to stay in the folder ...
