Converta 1.3.0 for Linux

Converta now runs on Linux. Right-click a file → Converta → pick a format.

Which file do I download?

• AppImage (any distro): make it executable and double-click it. That sets up the right-click menu, no root needed. Keep the file where it is.
• .deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) or .rpm (Fedora, RHEL, openSUSE): install it, then log out and back in, or run converta --install.
• .tar.gz (any distro): unpack it and run ./install.sh, no root needed.

Run converta --uninstall before removing a .deb or .rpm, so the menu entries go too.

File managers

• Submenu: Dolphin, Thunar, and Nautilus (GNOME Files) with the nautilus-python package (Debian/Ubuntu: python3-nautilus). Without it, Nautilus has Converta under Scripts.
• Menu entries: Nemo, PCManFM. Scripts menu: Caja.
• Any other file manager: "Open with" → Converta.

Good to know

• Audio and video need the ffmpeg package. Office files need libreoffice.
• Tested in containers on Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali, Fedora, Rocky, Alma, Arch, Manjaro, openSUSE, Void and Gentoo. The menu has so far been tried on a real desktop only on Fedora with GNOME.
• ARM64 packages are built but have not been run yet.
• Not supported: Alpine and other musl systems, NixOS, distros older than glibc 2.31.

Windows users: stay on 1.2.1, there is nothing new for you in this release.

Converta 1.2.1

Download Converta-Setup-1.2.1.exe below and install it over your current version. Then right-click a supported file → Converta (on Windows 11: Show more options or Shift + right-click).

What's new

• New logo: a calm, single-colour Windows blue instead of the old gradient. Shows up in the right-click menu, the installer and the app windows.
• No changes to conversions. Everything from 1.2.0 still applies: images, audio, video, PDF, Office, 3D models, CAD (STEP/IGES) and DXF.

Notes

• Windows SmartScreen may say "Unknown publisher" because the installer isn't code-signed yet: More info → Run anyway.
• FFmpeg (for audio/video) is downloaded once on the first audio/video conversion (~110 MB, SHA-256 verified).
• Requires Windows 10/11, 64-bit.

Converta 1.2.0

Download Converta-Setup-1.2.0.exe below, run it, done. Then right-click any supported file → Converta (on Windows 11: Show more options or Shift + right-click).

What it converts

• Images: PNG, JPG, WEBP, AVIF, BMP, GIF, TIFF, ICO, PDF (animated GIF/WEBP/AVIF stay animated; for single-picture formats you pick the frame)
• Audio: MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, M4A, OPUS, AAC, WMA
• Video: MP4, MKV, WEBM, MOV, AVI, GIF; extract audio; save a single frame as PNG/JPG
• PDF: to Word, TXT, pages as PNG/JPG
• Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint ↔ PDF/ODF formats (needs Microsoft Office or the free LibreOffice)
• 3D models: STL, OBJ, 3MF, PLY, GLB, OFF
• CAD: STEP and IGES to STL/3MF/OBJ/PLY/GLB, in millimetres, ready for your slicer
• DXF drawings: to PDF, SVG, PNG