The increasing amount of file formats available, together with the different nature of the various devices that we use at home and at work, make a tool like FormatFactory nearly a must on our desktop. This free multi-format utility comes with tools and codecs to help you convert, edit, and enhance document files, images, video, and audio files – concatenate as many of these conversions tasks as you wish and then launch them all in just one go.
As it happens with many of these multi-format, multi-purpose, all-in-one software programs, the interface has its lights and shadows. Putting together editing tools and multiple formats for various file types plus a set of extra tools is never easy, and usually the results are mixed, at best. Actually, the GUI itself is fairly simple once you know how the program works – tabs on the left-hand side for each file type and a panel on the right-hand side to pile up all the tasks we want to perform (an excellent time-saving idea when performing multiple conversions and an extra step you’ll have to go through when you just need to perform one single task). It gets trickier as soon as you click on one of the filetype tabs – there you’ll find a mixture of large icons representing various editing and conversion tasks in no particular order, making it difficult sometimes to be sure about what the program can and cannot do for you. more
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