IconConverter

http://www.chadweisshaar.com/weissof...php?page=intro

"The icon converter is a program to create an icon or cursor from all or
part of an image. It can also save an icon as an image. The program can
handle JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP.

Features
Select any portion of the image for your icon
Create icon files with multiple resolutions
Create Vista compatible (up to 256x256) icons using images with alpha
(transparency) data.
Create a transparency mask for the icon
Create a cursor (with hotpoint) from an image
Extract the icon from an executable
Save the icon as an image

Requirements: Windows XP or later. You will need .NET 2.0 or later. .NET
is built into windows Vista and is available for free from Microsoft for
windows XP. See the download page for a link to .NET.

Copyright: This software is free and is distributed under the Creative
Commons license. You may copy, distribute and modify the source code as
long as you attribute it to the author."



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Bear Bottoms
Freeware website: http://bearware.info

Bear Bottoms posted the following on 28-May-08 06:09:

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On Wed, 28 May 2008 07:51:28 +0700 'Sul'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:

Have you tried reading the instructions?


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most people don't like to hear the truth,
so they elect politicians to hide it from them.

hummingbird posted the following on 28-May-08 07:58:
http://wsims.com/cweissha/iconconverter/

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On Wed, 28 May 2008 08:14:36 +0700 'Sul'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:




That's a good place to start.


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most people don't like to hear the truth,
so they elect politicians to hide it from them.

hummingbird posted the following on 28-May-08 16:09:
sizes; 32x32, 48x48

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On Wed, 28 May 2008 17:36:46 +0700 'Sul'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:


The first sentence on the page you quoted above says:

"The icon converter is a program to create an icon or cursor
from all or part of an image."


A little further down it says:

"Features
-Select any portion of the image for your icon
-Create icon files with multiple resolutions"


I fail to see what the problem is.


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most people don't like to hear the truth,
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hummingbird posted the following on 28-May-08 17:41:
tried using the transparent feature and the end result was awful

maybe a bad workman always blames his tools

will try and figure it out later

not sure which graphic application is installed in my system when I right click,
I get a number of options; all except an ico :-)

maybe I will try and use Irfanview and see whether the results are better

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On Wed, 28 May 2008 21:18:57 +0700 'Sul'
wrote this on alt.comp.freeware:


1. I'm not sure how you can define a 1.5 x 2" picture,
because digital images don't have inch dimensions per se.
They have sizes in pixel dimensions (eg 200 x 300 pixels).

Their visible size varies depending on what resolution you use
on your monitor (higher resolution = smaller visible size). You
will only get a sense of its inch dimensions if you view it in
an application intended for (eg) desktop publishing where dpi
for printing is taken into account.

2. Since your image is not square, you will have to crop it
to produce a 48x48 pixel sized icon. The application appears
able to do that, if you tell it to. Irfanview can also do that.
However, some images reduce in size better than others.


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most people don't like to hear the truth,
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hummingbird posted the following on 28-May-08 21:32:
thanks
will bear in mind


Screen Ruler
Measure anything on your screen ...
http://wonderwebware.com/downloads.html

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hummingbird posted the following on 28-May-08 21:32:
thanks
will bear in mind


Screen Ruler
Measure anything on your screen ...
http://wonderwebware.com/downloads.html

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