Burning (Windows) autorun-capable CDs

[Peter L. Peres]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Jason Shein wrote:

> On December 4, 2004 10:34 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Anton Markov wrote:
>>>> Did you implement the icon thing too ?
>>>
>>> No, but I believe it would work. It should be as simple as adding
>>> 'icon=xyz.ico' after the 'run=' line.
>>>
>>> Actually, I don't know which program to use to create Windows .ico files
>>> (or whatever the extention is). Any ideas?
>>
>> You have to use an icon editor under W32. I think that gimp knows this
>> format, not sure.
>>
>> Peter
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> I have heard that gimp 2.2 will support .ico files
>
> this should work for now
>
> You need an image file that GIMP can open (PNG, GIF, etc.). And you need the
> command line tool ppmtowinicon from the netpbm-tools. Now perform the
> following actions:
>
> Open your image with GIMP.
> If your image is not a square then resize the canvas with GIMP.
> Scale the image to 16x16 pixel (Image, Scale image).
> Choose File, save as.. and save as favicon.pnm with raw encoding.
> Close GIMP
> Convert favicon.pnm using the command line utility ppmtowinicon:
>
> #ppmtowinicon -output favicon.ico favicon.pnm

Thanks for sharing that. Is the format of the little .ico files that 
appear in web browser url windows the same as the windows .ico format ?

Peter
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