Although digital images are ubiquitous, one image format does not suit all applications. Printed paper, electronic displays, images on the Web, etc., each call for the same image in a different format. In this tutorial, we explore the different format conversion tools that are currently available. The ImageMagick
suite, the cairo
backend, the poppler
utilities, the Inkscape
vector graphics editor, and CairoSVG
are each identified for their individual strengths, that make them the tools of choice for specific image conversion tasks.