12 articles published by Novus Convert.
Brightness becomes height, so a picture turns into a plate you can print and hold. What a relief is, why it is not a 3D model of the subject, and how to set the width, base and relief height in your browser.
Accounts have arrived on a site whose whole promise is that your files never leave your device. Here is exactly what an account stores, what it refuses to store, and why you may not need one.
A scan produces points. A printer wants a surface. These are different things, and the gap between them is the single most common misunderstanding in 3D work.
Purchase orders, invoices and clinical messages travel in formats designed in the 1980s and still moving trillions of dollars. How to look inside one without specialist software.
A container is a box, and the codec inside it is what actually matters. Understanding that explains why some conversions take seconds and others take an hour.
Some file extensions are the only thing distinguishing a file from its sibling, and a browser that renames the download breaks the conversion you asked for. A small problem with a real fix.
Two formats hold nearly every citation ever exported, and every reference manager prefers a different one. What converts cleanly, what each tool adds on top, and why keys matter.
ICO is a container of several sizes, not one image, and that is the whole trick. How to build an icon set from a source image, and why shrinking a detailed logo produces mush.
Research data arrives in formats built for research software. Here is what each one holds, how to get a look at it without the original toolchain, and where converting stops being honest.
An archive is a container and a compressor pretending to be one thing. Knowing which is which explains tar.gz, why 7z is smaller, why CBZ is just a ZIP, and what repacking costs.
Jupyter notebooks, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText and LaTeX are all source formats that expect a toolchain. Here is how to get a readable document out of one without installing it.
Three ways to store audio without throwing anything away, and one rule that decides between them. Also why converting a lossy file to a lossless one improves nothing at all.
