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favicon Bob Lockie 11 Nov 22:32
  favicon Jon Mercer 12 Nov 00:09
  favicon Sven Neumann 12 Nov 01:10
   favicon Bob Lockie 12 Nov 22:32
  favicon Henrik Brix Andersen 12 Nov 13:22
   favicon David Neary 12 Nov 15:47
Bob Lockie
2003-11-11 22:32:20 UTC (over 20 years ago)

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I want to creat an icon file so that I can specify a shortcut icon in my HTML but apparently the gimp (1.2.5) I have cannot read or write (Windows?) icon files.

Jon Mercer
2003-11-12 00:09:06 UTC (over 20 years ago)

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There are plenty of tutorials about this on the internet.

One such is http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/index.html

This describes how to turn a png image into a windows icon file, on Windows, Linux or FreeBSD.

Cheers,

Jon

Bob Lockie wrote:

I want to creat an icon file so that I can specify a shortcut icon in my HTML but apparently the gimp (1.2.5) I have cannot read or write (Windows?) icon files.

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Sven Neumann
2003-11-12 01:10:17 UTC (over 20 years ago)

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Hi,

Bob Lockie writes:

I want to creat an icon file so that I can specify a shortcut icon in my HTML but apparently the gimp (1.2.5) I have cannot read or write (Windows?) icon files.

Why not use a PNG file instead? Add something like this to the element:

Sven

Henrik Brix Andersen
2003-11-12 13:22:09 UTC (over 20 years ago)

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On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:32, Bob Lockie wrote:

I want to creat an icon file so that I can specify a shortcut icon in my HTML but apparently the gimp (1.2.5) I have cannot read or write (Windows?) icon files.

There is a plug-in for gimp-1.2 called winicon which can load/save MS Windows .ico files. You can find it on http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=2223

Alternative you can use a .png file - or even an animated .mng file. Just specify the right mime type:

Sincerely, ./Brix

David Neary
2003-11-12 15:47:11 UTC (over 20 years ago)

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Hi,

Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:32, Bob Lockie wrote:

I want to creat an icon file so that I can specify a shortcut icon in my HTML but apparently the gimp (1.2.5) I have cannot read or write (Windows?) icon files.

There is a plug-in for gimp-1.2 called winicon which can load/save MS Windows .ico files. You can find it on http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=2223

I thought that .ico files were (more or less) BMPs with size limitations (16x16, 32x32, etc), in which case you could save your file with the extension .ico selecting the type to be BMP.

Just checking that works... Yup. Works fine. You can't get transparency though - the bmp plug-in doesn't support it.

Cheers, Dave.

Bob Lockie
2003-11-12 22:32:15 UTC (over 20 years ago)

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On 11/11/03 19:10 Sven Neumann spoke thusly

Hi,

Bob Lockie writes:

I want to creat an icon file so that I can specify a shortcut icon in my HTML but apparently the gimp (1.2.5) I have cannot read or write (Windows?) icon files.

Why not use a PNG file instead? Add something like this to the element:

Sven

PNG doesn't work in the IE I tried so I'm going to try a BMP/ICO file and see if that works.