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Anthony's Icon Library
Converting images for PC use


The images in Anthony's Icon Library are designed for use on X window displays. As such the image format used throughout the library is X bitmap for black and white monochrome images and X pixmap for color images.

PC users however will likely not be able to use these image formats directly and will need to convert them to a different format. Below are some programs I have been told about to allow you to either view and or convert the X window image formats to something more usable on those machines.

Disclaimer: I am NOT a Windows user, and never really likes the restricted enviorment provided by it. I prefer the more free form environment of UNIX and X Windows, and now Linux. I use to do my work from a Sun Color Desktop Workstation, but have now moved to SuSE Linux, then later to Redhat Linux running on a PC with huge 1600x120 pixel display.

If any of the information provided, is wrong, incorrect, or you would like to add another choice, mail me. Otherwise I do not really want to know about PCs and their problems. ;-)

ImageMagick Image Filters
The PC-NT version of one of the image filter packages I use in processing this library of images, is able to cobvert almost any image format to any other, and much much more. It has both a command line, and GUI interface. The command line interface makes it especially useful for batch processing of images.
  • ImageMagick, Sourceforge Home Page

    • NOTE: Some image converters for PC I use to list have dissappeared from the web. While others have been mentioned to me. I take no responsability for them. As I said I am not a windows user, and as such do not use these particular programs myself.

    If you know where these programs can be found, or any other image converters, please let me know.

    Created: 29 January 1997
    Updated: 3 April 2003
    Anthony Thyssen, <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>