RAW converter for Linux, anyone?

[Rowla]

Anybody out there know of any Linux software that will convert RAW to tiff? The only software I have is Canon's crappy image viewer file but it's Windows and the notebook we got for transferring files away from home has Linux loaded on it. I thought it would be nice to have software installed so I could start processing the RAW files on the long drives home.

Any suggestions would be great ... except for suggesting that we take Linux off the notebook. I think my boyfriend would implode.

Thanks :)

[Bubber Jones]

Check out:

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

It'll convert Raw to PPM and looks like many commercial apps have used it as a base...

Something to look at anyway...

[Rowla]

Wow, that was fast. Thanks Bubber :)

Will Photoshop open PPM files?

[Bubber Jones]

Check about 1/3rd of the way down the page....


Could you please add an option for TIFF / PNG / BMP / JPEG output?
No. Dcraw writes PPM only. To convert to other formats:
dcraw -c crw_0001.crw | pnmtotiff -truecolor > crw_0001.tiff
dcraw -c crw_0001.crw | pnmtopng > crw_0001.png
dcraw -c crw_0001.crw | ppmtobmp > crw_0001.bmp
dcraw -c crw_0001.crw | cjpeg > crw_0001.jpeg

I used the Netpbm toolkit in these examples. ImageMagick also does command-line format conversions. Both are free.


You could wrap up a shell script to convert the images to most any format that a graphics utility with stdin/stdout support could handle.

I've used this program for some automated conversions, but it is not my main workhorse. I've done some work with it and it works well, but I can't tell yet how it compairs to the other solutions quality wise...

I'm still playing with it, though.. I'd like to compare notes if you take it on...

[Bubber Jones]

(I realized I didn't answer the question)...

I don't have PS in front of me, so I'm not sure if it'll open ppm files directly, or not... :)