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Try the netpbm suite of freeware image conversion utilities.  They are
basically an any to any image format conversion suite.  They work by first
converting to an intermediate meta file format and then out to another format.
 Pipe together commands as needed to do what you want.  Use a shell script or
foreach (csh) command to process multiple files.

May be found at: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities and many mirror sites.


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