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Icon Formatting Tools

Keywords: 	  windows xp compiler icons 2002 Icon Formatting Tools

Icon Editors

Various people have found Icon editors available by third parties. These two seem to be very popular:

http://www.aha-soft.com/iconxp/

http://www.axialis.com/axicons/index.html

http://freewareupdate.com/images-and-photos/1831-download-icofx

http://www.free-icon-editor.com/

The icon editor from: http://www.aha-soft.com/iconxp/ has some kind of automatic resizer/copier to help with the problem of the multiple icons.

To convert a single ICO to a file with 6 icons of the format you need for compiler:

  1. Open the ICO file in IconXP.
  2. Go into Tools|Duplicate Image, and duplicate the image 5 more times (for a total of 6 icons).
  3. Go into Tools|Convert Image, and select each image consecutively, and choose the settings, respectively:

    16x16 16-color
    32x32 16-color
    48x48 16-color
    16x16 256-color
    32x32 256-color
    48x48 256-color
    
  4. Then save the new ICO file. It should now compile in the 2002 version of Compiler.

One user said, "Automatically converted icons don't always look as good as the original, but in most cases they only need a little bit of a touch-up done to make them look OK. The automatic conversion is nice because it allows me to very quickly add the 5 or so additional variants of the icon that are needed for basic WinXP compliance."



Article ID:   W16393
File Created: 2013:04:05:12:32:06
Last Updated: 2013:04:05:12:32:06