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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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

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

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.