How to convert multiple XCF files to PNG?

Question

I have a folder with a lot of xcf files which I want all to be converted to png files, at best via a one-liner from bash.

How can I achieve such a task?

You may want to give a try to `convert` tool from ImageMagick. Supports a lot of formats and operations, might be useful in future. — TNW, Apr 15 '13 at 00:48
any of the `xcf2png` or ImageMagick answers won't work with the current XCF version (v. 12). This answer is currently (2022-07) effective: [image manipulation - How to convert XCF to PNG using GIMP from the command-line? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5794640/how-to-convert-xcf-to-png-using-gimp-from-the-command-line/5846727#5846727) — scruss, Jul 30 '22 at 12:43

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 03 '17 at 06:49

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One-liner from bash:

for i in *.xcf; do xcf2png -f $i -o $i.png; done

edited May 03 '17 at 06:49

Alex Angas

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answered Apr 15 '13 at 00:01

k0pernikus

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does not work for xcf created by new gimp2, this tool is too old – Wang Jul 22 '20 at 13:35

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 24 '15 at 14:04

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You can use GIMP Image editor and use Export to tool. Use Ctrl-Shift-E as shortcut.
Or you could use convert from imagemagick:

convert filename.xcf filename.png

You could also use xcftools (sudo apt-get install xcftools), which has a utility called xcf2png that does this job perfectly.

xcf2png image.xcf -o image.png

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don_crissti

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answered Apr 15 '13 at 13:42

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '17 at 20:11

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same of @k0pernikus, but remove xcf extension from output filename

for i in *.xcf; do xcf2png -f $i -o "${i%.*}.png"; done

answered Jun 09 '17 at 20:11

Fabio C. Barrionuevo da Luz

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 25 '20 at 21:07

My one-liner using convert from imagemagik:

for i in Amplicon*.xcf; do convert $i ${i/xcf/png}; done

I had to keep my 'Amplicon' name because otherwise, it finds hidden xcf files in the directory and exports all the layers as individual PNGs haha. But it works! And the variant not using a loop (and could be parallelized)

find . -name "Amplicon*xcf" | xargs -I {} convert {} {}.png

But... I coudn't remove the '.xcf" from the filename. Still works!

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 29 '20 at 19:01

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Based on J. Auger's solution:

find . -name "Amplicon*xcf" | parallel convert {} {.}.png

answered Aug 29 '20 at 19:01

Ole Tange

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How to convert multiple XCF files to PNG?

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