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I am working on a Web site and needed to use part of the client’s logo for the site’s Favicon. Since I work on a Mac, I needed something that was quick and easy without a lot of fluff… I mean, come on… I just need to convert a A
I stumbled upon this nifty command-line tool called png2ico. Did you hear me say “command-line”?! You know what that means, right?! Just issue a simple command on the command-line and you’re in business. This is exactly what I needed!
I downloaded the source and was about to compile it when I decided to see if it was already in the MacPorts collection of third-party Unix applications. GUess what?! After running % sudo port selfupdate to get my MacPorts up to date, I ran % port search png2ico and this was returned:
% port search png2ico
png2ico graphics/png2ico 2002-12-08 Converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.
Great! After running % sudo port install png2ico I was in business. I quickly ran % png2ico favicon.ico favicon.png (where favicon.ico is the output file and favicon.png is my input file) and I had my conversion done in a matter of milliseconds…
If you need to quickly convert PNG image files to ICO image files on a Unix or Mac system, give this utility a try. No bulky UIno , fancy command line switches, just the basics to convert your file. Nice!
Until next time…
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