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Subject:Re: Icon Editors From:Matt Ion <soundy -at- SOUNDY -dot- ML -dot- ORG> Date:Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:16:21 -0800
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:10:32 -0500, Sarah Jackson wrote:
>I am trying to edit the icons from our software to include them in our
>on-line help. Only problem is that they are saved as .ico files rather than
>.bmp or .jpg. Does anyone know of a free Icon Editor, or other shareware
>that would do the job, that can read .ico files?
If you have an OS/2 machine kicking around, the included Icon Editor
(ICONEDIT.EXE) will let you load and icon and save it as a bitmap.
There's also an excellent image editor, PMView, that handles .ICOs just
like any other image format.
Your friend and mine,
Matt
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There's the path leading out to sea
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But once glace back reminds, and they'll see
Someone else, not me.
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