stefp has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

The is plenty of windoze ressources to create a favicon.ico. I want to do that under linux. Apparently one step is missing from linux tools: converting a bitmap to the icon form. This page provides a tool but a windoze one.

Any documentation pointer about the icon format; or, better, a perl script that does the job is welcome.

-- stefp -- checkout TeXmacs wiki

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Re: Generating favicon.ico
by kschwab (Vicar) on Jan 05, 2002 at 07:59 UTC
    The Netpbm toolkit includes "ppmtowinicon". It's not perl specific, but it does run under linux. Netpbm provides utilities to convert to and from a variety of formats.