This said, the other strong point of this GOTD is its ability to read and convert from 620 image formats, including forgotten ones (although one could argue that if a format is forgotten, what's the big deal).ReaConverter is a powerful batch image converter which allows you to convert multiple images between a huge variety of different formats in a single operation. Notwithstanding, I'm pretty sure one day IrfanView will handle BPG files. Too bad the CLI is reserved to the pro version, which might be worth the price tag should you be a professional photographer or a graphic designer. So, the unique interest to me is the BPG conversion. I hate these GUIs maybe more than the ribbon, which you can hide 'Modern' GUI eats 50% of usable vertical space.

Cannot remember last/previous output formats Cannot drop files (at least the first times I tried, then restarting the software solved the problem, go figure)

There will always be people saying HDDs are cheaper than optical discs, but longevity and reliability of optical discs are much better than that of HDDs. Or store on CD/DVD/BR if you don't really need to invest in a M-DISC compatible writer. If you have a huge collection of huge image files and consider this collection of utmost importance, you could save a lot of money using M-DISCs for storing your precious images/photos to BPG. It took 46 seconds to create the 20 image files, and all images are negative :( Same s**t when converting to JPG. Converting a PDF file of 20 pages (scanned court filing, 704 Kb) to PNG. This is a whopping 2809% gain in disk space. Then, the result was converted to a 487 Kb.

There was no notable difference to my (old) eyes.

I wanted to try this because it can convert to and from the new very promising BPG format.īPG conversions work well.

Reaconverter 7