Rick,
Thanks for the reply and the information.
Einar
>There are several good commercial icon editors out there. My personal favorite is Axialis IconWorkshop (www.axialis.com), which I know can import and export between icon format and other images formats. Microangelo (http://www.microangelo.us/) from Eclipsit Corp. is also very popular. I'm pretty sure it can handle going to and from other formats.
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>Back in the dark ages I used a free command-line utility called gif2icon. If you can still find it, you could go from bmp to gif using Photoshop or whatever, then from gif to ico using gif2icon. I'm sure there are a ton of other icon editors out there, too, some of which might also facilitate a two-step solution.
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>>Thank you for your reply Kenneth, but IconEdit does not allow me to save the icon file unless I pay the $20 they want. Do you know if there are any other commecial drawing/painting applications that allow exporting to icon format. What I would really like to do is convert some bmp files into icon files. I found an online utility that does this (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/) but I am not too happy with the result.
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>>Einar
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>>>Yep. It's true. However, freeware like IconEdit can take care of that problem.
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>>>http://www.softpile.com/Desktop/Icons/Review_01668_index.html
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>>>>I was just told by our graphical department that Photoshop and Illustrator can not save or export an image to the icon format (*.ico). I find this hard to believe, but since I do not have either Photoshop or Illustrator installed on my computer I can not verify this.
>>>>Can anyone tell me if they are trying to pull my leg?
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>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Einar