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ppmtowinicon - convert 1 or more portable pixmaps into a Windows .ico file

Synopsis

ppmtowinicon [-andppms] [-output output.ico] [ppmfiles...]

Description

Reads one or more portable pixmaps as input. Produces a Microsoft Windows .ico file as output.

A Windows icon contains 1 or more images, at different resolutions and color depths.

Microsoft recommends including at least the following formats in each icon.

16 x 16 - 4 bpp

32 x 32 - 4 bpp

48 x 48 - 8 bpp

Default I/O is STDIN/STDOUT.

Options

-andppms
If this option is given, every other file is read as a bitmask to be used by windows for transparancy data for the previous image. (These are set to blank by default.)
-output output.ico
File to write. By default, the icon is written to stdout.

See Also

winicontoppm(1) , ppm(5)

Author

Copyright (C) 2000 by Lee Benfield.


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