ppmtowinicon

ppmtowinicon

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS SEE ALSO AUTHOR

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

ppmtowinicon [''-andppms'' [unrenderable node] [''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.