the process of translating the data in a file from one format or encoding to another
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Are .apple files potentially synonymous (or a wrapper to) .dmg files?
We lost a .dmg file on an harddrive. Our tech guy was able to recover files from the drive but not one of them is a .dmg file. But they are a lot of .apple file. Can the .dmg file we are looking for ...
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Can I convert blog entries to wiki articles for Leopard-to-Lion migration?
We are migrating our Leopard server to Lion. We were using Group wikis and blogs in such a way that I didn't make much of a distinction, so it came as a shock to realize that Lion Server doesn't ...
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An Automator workflow for extracting text as speech from PDF files
I get PDFs to revise course content which I want to convert to MP3 files and take with me as spoken audio.
Automator offers 'text to speech' conversion and it's great. When I try and build a workflow ...
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ImageMagick - Convert multipage pdf to animated gif
I have a two-page PDF file that I would like to convert to an animated GIF file. A post on the TeX StackExchange gives the following ImageMagick one-liner:
convert -verbose -delay 50 -loop 0 ...
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Exporting PDF with table of contents hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2011?
When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of ...
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Final Cut Express conversion problem
I am trying to convert the MPEG4.webloc file of a public domain "Soundie" into a file that Final Cut Express can read. It doesn't convert in MPEG Streamclip. Any ideas how to do this?
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Sips not working with pict, qtif and sgi files
The terminal command sips -s format pict /path/to/image.ext --out /path/to/output.pic ouputs Error: Unsupported output format com.apple.pict even though if you do man sips and go down to format, there ...
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On Keynote for Mac, how can I force a size for slides when exported to PDF?
I'm trying to export my presentation as a PDF in Keynote '09 (version 5.2 (1125)) but the PDF document size doesn't match the size of my slides in Keynote (PDF pages are much larger).
Is there any ...
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Problem adding large surround sound wav file to iTunes
The Problem
When I attempt to add 5.1 surround sound WAV files, they do not show up in iTunes, and no error is displayed.
(I have checked "recently added," etc.)
Background
I have surround sound ...
