Hi all,
I designed an ICON and now want to save it to an ICON file type. Is this possible in Windows?
Thanks
Marv
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:32:43PM -0500, Marv Cook wrote:
I designed an ICON and now want to save it to an ICON file type. Is this possible in Windows?
I normally save an SVG, then import it three times as layers to GIMP and have the GIMP create the ICON for me. It actually works really well.
Jeff
Greetings.
In article <20060325224639.GA738@...1493...>, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:32:43PM -0500, Marv Cook wrote:
I designed an ICON and now want to save it to an ICON file type. Is this possible in Windows?
I normally save an SVG, then import it three times as layers to GIMP and have the GIMP create the ICON for me. It actually works really well.
Why three times?
Regards, Tristan
On Mar 26, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
In article <20060325224639.GA738@...1493...>, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote:
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:32:43PM -0500, Marv Cook wrote:
I designed an ICON and now want to save it to an ICON file type. Is this possible in Windows?
I normally save an SVG, then import it three times as layers to GIMP and have the GIMP create the ICON for me. It actually works really well.
Why three times?
That's so that the windows .ico export will save a .ico file with three different sized versions.
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:17:47AM +0100, Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
Why three times?
So I have an icon with 64x64, 32x32, and 16x16 embedded in the file. Those are the three standard sizes for icons in Windows.
Jeff
How are these arranged?
On 3/27/06, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:17:47AM +0100, Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
Why three times?
So I have an icon with 64x64, 32x32, and 16x16 embedded in the file. Those are the three standard sizes for icons in Windows.
Jeff
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Computer Science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:10:58PM -0500, Edward Hume wrote:
How are these arranged?
Three layers, each of the appropriate size and depth. The location of each of the layers themselves hasn't mattered in my creations :)
Jeff
Thank you.
On 3/27/06, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:10:58PM -0500, Edward Hume wrote:
How are these arranged?
Three layers, each of the appropriate size and depth. The location of each of the layers themselves hasn't mattered in my creations :)
Jeff
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Computer Science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Thanks for the tip. I have downloaded and installed GIMP. Now I will have to learn to use it :)
Marv
On 3/25/06, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@...1493...> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:32:43PM -0500, Marv Cook wrote:
I designed an ICON and now want to save it to an ICON file type. Is
this
possible in Windows?
I normally save an SVG, then import it three times as layers to GIMP and have the GIMP create the ICON for me. It actually works really well.
Jeff
--
Computer Science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002)
Greetings.
In article <000001c6505c$08d6b560$0e18a8c0@...1720...>, Marv Cook wrote:
I designed an ICON and now want to save it to an ICON file type. Is this possible in Windows?
You mean Microsoft Windows XP–style icons? Microsoft has provided generic instructions here, which should be applicable to any vector or bitmap drawing program, including Inkscape: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp
Regards, Tristan
On Mar 26, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
In article <000001c6505c$08d6b560$0e18a8c0@...1720...>, Marv Cook wrote:
I designed an ICON and now want to save it to an ICON file type. Is this possible in Windows?
You mean Microsoft Windows XP–style icons? Microsoft has provided generic instructions here, which should be applicable to any vector or bitmap drawing program, including Inkscape: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp>
One main problem is that MS Windows icon files are a special multi- image format
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