[Techtalk] Icon editor

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On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 09:52, Dan Richter wrote:
> I've noticed that Mozilla supports supports a [LINK REL="shortcut icon"] 
> feature which is becomming more popular on web sites (especially the 
> open-source savvy sites). This file inevitably ends in .ico, suggesting 
> that it is the kind used on Windows.
> 
> Can anyone suggest an image editor that can write icon files? Note: I'm 
> sure someone is going to say "Gimp", but in that case please give me 
> specific instructions on converting from some other format to icon, because 
> I'm not familiar with the Gimp.

hi Dan,

i remember having fun and games getting my favicon.ico to work on my
www.copyleftmedia.org.uk site. i think what i ended up doing was
creating the icon as a png or jpg, then using xv to convert it to bmp
format. after a little google searching i found that apparently .ico is
just a renamed bmp - so i renamed favicon.bmp to favicon.ico .... and i
think that worked! otherwise i havent found any gnu/linux tools that
will convert to .ico itself as its a proprietary windows format, but in
windoze itself (ugh ;-) i use ircanview.

hth

m

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