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:crystal_ball: File conversion, all from the menu bar

Home Page: https://dawnlabs.github.io/alchemy

License: MIT License

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alchemy's Introduction

Introduction

Alchemy is an open-source file converter (built on Electron and React). It also supports operations like merging files together into a pdf. We hope to support more operations and file types soon!

Visit dawnlabs.io/alchemy/ or read our post to learn more.

Features

Beautifully simple. Super easy, drag-and-drop interface for converting/merging files
Merge files. Merge multiple images into one pdf, you can even change the file order
Convert files. Batch-convert multiple files to a variety of file types

Usage

Simply open the app by clicking on the menubar icon, or by hitting ⌘-⇧-8.
Then just drag your image files into the application and select any options.
Finally, click the convert/merge to seamlessly convert them into a variety of formats, or merge them into a pdf or gif. You can also hold ⇧ while dropping to merge the files into a pdf immediately.

Installation

macOS/Windows

Download the latest release from the Alchemy Releases Page

Linux

We haven't tested Alchemy on Linux yet, but if you're feeling adventurous go right ahead and create a build for your platform of choice.

Contribute

If you have discovered a bug or have a feature suggestion, feel free to create an issue on Github.

If you'd like to make some changes yourself, see the following:

Fork this repository to your own GitHub account and then clone it to your local device
Build the webpack bundle and start the application: yarn build && yarn start
Help us keep our code clean and safe: npm i --package-lock-only && npm audit fix
Run the tests with: yarn test
Finally, submit a pull request with your changes!

Authors

Alchemy is a project by

Mike Fix (@mfix22)
Brian Dennis (@briandennis)
Jake Dexheimer (@jakedex)

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alchemy's Issues

0.5.1 release broken

hey there,

your 0.5.1 release with URL
https://github.com/dawnlabs/alchemy/releases/download/0.5.1/Alchemy-mac.zip

and checksum
c49f55f17f155a5e7c5241d364a927f0e9375cf51c11bc24238acf0108c9f958

seems to be broken. the ZIP file can't be decompressed.

window closes as soon as i switch focus off of it

on linux, i cant drag and drop because when i go to do so on my file manager it closes the other window and i have to press the thing on my taskbar and it doesnt work because i have to leave focus to drag and drop, maybe add an upload button? or just make it so the window doesnt dissapear when it loses focus

Merging PDFs

Have you considered having the tool merge PDFs? If so, were there difficulties that de-prioritized that functionality? Would you consider a PR that adds that functionality?

Add support for additional file types

photosorcery, the underlying library that handles file conversion for Alchemy, added support for converting to and from additional file types. We should handle these types as well.

Don't Include File Extension Conversion for Current File

When a single image is placed in the application, and the "Convert" tab is selected, there is still an option in the dropdown menu to convert the file to the type it already is. For example, I could drag in "Image.jpg" and the dropdown would still have "JPG" as an option to convert it to.

I'd be happy to look into adding this as a feature, as it isn't really a big deal, and I'm sure there are other, more important things you guys are working on.

Merging doesn't finish

Windows 10, using Alchemy version 0.5.0

When I drag and drop some files (.png) into the application, fill in a title, and click the start button, the 'in progress' screen is shown, and it stays on there. No pdf is produced and there is no way to cancel it.

Additionally, it seems it's not possible to exit the application at any point. I'm forced to end all Electron processes in task manager.

Only errors

Looks stunning but doesn't work at all. After adding three jpegs and clicking convert to pdf I get only command line like errors

Adding support for converting from HEIC?

It would be SUPER helpful to have a conversion from HEIC to JPEG. iPhone images are stored in HEIC (this is changeable in iPhone settings, but using the less efficient images takes up more space), and converting them is always a hassle. Alchemy is already awesome, but it would be more awesome to convert from HEIC to at least JPEG.

File name on the bottom of the image?

Hi there!

Is there any chance you can add (as an option) the file name - to be burned in somewhere on the bottom of the image (during converting jpg(s) to pdf)?

Thanks.

Install converting tool with build

Alchemy Maintainer(s) wanted 🙏

Hey all,
Alchemy is a beautiful little app that could use some tender, love, and care.

Since Carbon really took off, we have not had time to maintain this app. However, it is really useful and people could really benefit from it.

If anyone is interested in helping us out with this project, we would love to make you a maintainer.

We appreciate your support,
❤️ @dawnlabs

Add preferences menu

Handle uppercase file extensions

For example someFile.JPG. Currently photosorcery breaks on uppercase file extension names. Support for that is being tracked with this issue. After it is complete, updated binaries will need to be compiled and added.

Stuck Converting

I attempted three times to convert different image files (JPG and PNG) and each time, after hitting the "Merge" button, the window changed to "Converting" and stayed that way for several minutes before I manually closed the application via the Windows Task Manager.

I'm using Windows 10.

I've deleted the software out of frustration so I can't do any more testing to figure out the cause, but I can provide more information on my system if it would help.

Doesn't support .webp

I like the ease of use of this program, but sadly it is missing some formats, .webp being one of them.
I hope that you will consider adding this in the future :)

Support more output file types

Support more input file types

Can't merge file name with a space in it.

Have two files hat has a space in file name. E.g. File name #1: test 1.jpg, File name #2: test 2.jpg
Merge them

Problem: "ERR: Error: Command failed........ invalid file" message shows.

Set up Hazel Autoupdater

Set up electron autoUpdater to point to https://alchemy.now.sh

Style

Needs a more unified style and color scheme.

No way to stop it

This app lacks ANY form of exit or quit.
Once launched there is no way to stop it, or remove it from the menu bar, short of shutting down your computer.

Send desktop notification

Send notification when the conversion finishes if the window is closed
- electron/electron#9269

save path not encoded

Hi, see the error below, after uploaded the source files to alchemy, the merge process failed by file path is invalid

Add quit button to exit app

"Download for Windows" button has incorrect link.

When I navigate to https://dawnlabs.github.io/alchemy/ and press the "Download for Windows" button, it directs me to the wrong page. The button is a link to this old page which no longer exists, producing a 404. https://github.com/dawnlabs/alchemy/releases/download/0.5.1/Alchemy-win32.zip
I believe this link should be updated to this location, as per the ReadMe.md: https://github.com/dawnlabs/alchemy/releases/latest

Convert fails with differing extensions

This issue originates from #36. See for how to reproduce: #36 (comment)

I believe the issue stems from here

alchemy/src/api.js

Lines 29 to 44 in 251eaf9

 async convert ({ files, outputPath, outputType }) { 

 const tmpDir = tmp.dirSync().name 

 const tmpFiles = files.map(copyToDir.bind(null, tmpDir)) 

 const args = [ 

 'convert', 

 '-type', outputType, 

 '-out', outputPath, 

 ...tmpFiles 

 ] 

 try { 

 await execa(binary, args) 

 } finally { 

 fs.remove(tmpDir) 

 }

Where it takes a list of files to convert but assumes they are all the same format.

We can fix it by grouping and converting each set of files separately or we can change photosorery to accept multiple file types. (It seems that handling this inside of node would be easier)

Linux support

We're using electron-package to build for the macOS platform. It'd be great if someone could try building the executables for Windows and/or Linux.

Add staging area

Add intermediate state where the order of files can be manipulated.

[macOS] Auto-close the pop up when a different menu-bar app if clicked

Doesn't show any GUI on Windows 7

Running the app only opens a process (as seen in the Task Manager), not an accompanying GUI. Is it not intended to work on Windows 7?

I tried the latest release, 0.5.0. Then I tried 0.4.1 just to check. Neither works.

Security vulnerabilities

The following output was produced on Ubuntu 18.04.

jeffh@ubuntu-vbox:~/projects/alchemy$ npm install
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: 'github' has been renamed to '@octokit/rest' (https://git.io/vNB11)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade to Chalk 2.1.0 - template literals in this version (2.0.1) are quite buggy.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Browserslist 2 could fail on reading Browserslist >3.0 config used in other tools.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: 'native-or-bluebird' is deprecated. Please use 'any-promise' instead.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The major version is no longer supported. Please update to 4.x or newer

> [email protected] install /home/jeffh/projects/alchemy/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Downloading binary from https://github.com/sass/node-sass/releases/download/v4.9.4/linux-x64-64_binding.node
Download complete .] - :
Binary saved to /home/jeffh/projects/alchemy/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-64/binding.node
Caching binary to /home/jeffh/.npm/node-sass/4.9.4/linux-x64-64_binding.node

> [email protected] postinstall /home/jeffh/projects/alchemy/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

Downloading SHASUMS256.txt
[============================================>] 100.0% of 5.74 kB (5.74 kB/s)

> [email protected] postinstall /home/jeffh/projects/alchemy/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

Binary found at /home/jeffh/projects/alchemy/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-64/binding.node
Testing binary
Binary is fine
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

added 1678 packages from 829 contributors and audited 30520 packages in 79.476s
found 8 vulnerabilities (1 low, 4 moderate, 2 high, 1 critical)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

Would you accept a PR with automatic fixes applied?

support non-standard image formats for PDF merge

Currently the PDF library used by photosorcery only supports jpg, gif, and png images. This issue can probably be avoided by first converting all images to standard types before merging. While this could be added to photosorcery directly, it may be easier to accomplish from Node-land.

	async convert ({ files, outputPath, outputType }) {
	const tmpDir = tmp.dirSync().name
	const tmpFiles = files.map(copyToDir.bind(null, tmpDir))

	const args = [
	'convert',
	'-type', outputType,
	'-out', outputPath,
	...tmpFiles
	]

	try {
	await execa(binary, args)
	} finally {
	fs.remove(tmpDir)
	}