On 5/25/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> wrote:

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:51:20PM -0700, Valerie VK wrote:

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I apologize if there is and I simply didn't find it, but a google search mostly turned up results for people using Inkscape to create mascots for Other programs. XD

I'm wondering if there's an Inkscape mascot or discussions about one, because I hope to make an Inkscape anime tutorial for my friends eventually, and I thought it might be a good idea to somehow base the design off of something from Inkscape. If Inkscape does not have a mascot yet though, I'll just come up with a random design.

If you look at the Inkscape logo the right way, you can make out a happy salamander (some say a frog). I've always taken that to be the mascot. ;-)

Bryce

Think its time we reviewed your medicne dose levels again bryce :)

Thought all the times this had been discussed the general feel was we didnt see the need for one. someone would have to check the archives tho.

Joop B. Buker wrote:

Hello,

Hi,

I want to make some icons with Inkscape. I start with File > New > Icon_48x48. But how do I save what I have made to an ico-file? If I go to Save as, there is no possibility to save as an ico-file.

I hope there is a simple solution, but I cannot find it in the documention.

You can't save directly as .ico from Inkscape. A good option is to export a PNG, open the PNG with GIMP (http://gimp.org) and save from there as .ico

Hey Inskapers, beste Luc (wederom!),

I use to make a lot of icons in Inskape for my job, and there are two tools that make this job considerably easier. Both are for WinXP, though. I assume we're making a lot of icons, though, and that the icons are saved as svg files in a single directory. This is what I do: 1) use a batch file to convert them to PNG 2) use a program called IconBox or toycon to convert them to windows ICO files

Ok, in more detail:

1) The batch file is a text file that you can make in notepad. Just open notepad and copy paste the following text in it (without the dotted lines) ------------------ for /R %%i in (*.svg) do "C:\Progra~1\Inkscape\inkscape.exe" -f "%%~fi" -e "%%~dpni.png" -w 256 ------------------ Then, save the file in the same directory as the icons under the name "svg2png_256.bat". Now, execute this file by double-clicking and it will convert als SVG files to PNG files. Very easy. Saves the trouble of exporting them manually to PNG files all the time.

2) go to "http://www.customxp.net/forum/showthread.php?p=121578" (French language, I'm sorry) and download toYcon (formally named IconBox), install, execute and drop the directory with the icons on the program! Done!

Ofcourse, for a single file, step number two is enough and it will just convert any PNG to ICO. Just what you need, isn't it?

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good luck, veel plezier,

Maarten

-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Joop B. Buker Sent: Fri 25-May-07 17:15 To: Inkscape User Community Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Making an ico file

I want to make some icons with Inkscape.

I hope there is a simple solution, but I cannot find it in the documention.

You can't save directly as .ico from Inkscape. A good option is to export a PNG, open the PNG with GIMP (http://gimp.org) and save from there as .ico

Thanks for your quick response. A pity it cannot be completely done inside inkscape.

Luc

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