https://pesche.schlau.ch/tags/gimp/ Recent content in Gimp on Pesches Schlauch Hugo en Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:26:37 +0200 https://pesche.schlau.ch/2004/08/18/creating-a-favicon.ico-file-with-the-gimp/ Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:26:37 +0200 https://pesche.schlau.ch/2004/08/18/creating-a-favicon.ico-file-with-the-gimp/ <p>Because <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">Gimp 2.0</a> doesn't support the Windows icon format <a href="http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS">yet</a>, I looked for another way to create a favicon.ico file with Gimp running under Mac OS X.</p> <p>The Web recommends at least three different conversion tools for this task:</p> <ul> <li>ppmtowinicon is said to have problems with transparency</li> <li>xpm2wico is not available as a <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/">Fink</a> package</li> <li><a href="http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/">png2ico</a> did the trick for me</li> </ul>