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Subject:Re: Icon Editors From:"Jessica N. Lange" <jlange -at- OEE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 22 Jan 1999 07:27:53 -0500
Sarah Jackson asked:
<snip>
>Does anyone know of a free Icon Editor, or other shareware
> that would do the job, that can read .ico files?
I don't think any program *except* an icon editor will read an
.ico file. However, *YOU* may not need to get an icon editor.
---who is creating the icons now? Perhaps that person can save
the icons out for you in a usable format.
For what it's worth, I create the icons for our software, using Axialis
AX-icons (good program). It won't save as bmp, but here's what I do:
In AX-icons: Select All--Copy (to clipboard)
In PhotoPaint: File->Paste as new file; save as bmp (or jpg)
Pretty quick. Works well for me.
Hope that helps
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Jessica N. Lange mailto:jlange -at- oee -dot- com
Technical Communicator, Ohio Electronic Engravers, Inc.
> I am trying to edit the icons from our software to include them in our
> on-line help. Only problem is that they are saved as .ico files
> rather than
> .bmp or .jpg. Does anyone know of a free Icon Editor, or other shareware
> that would do the job, that can read .ico files?
>
>
