A pity it cannot be completely done inside inkscape. A good option is toĮxport a PNG, open the PNG with GIMP () and save from I hope there is a simple solution, but I cannot find it in the documention. Just what you need, isn't it?ĭISCLAIMER: the responsibilty for scanning for malware is yours, ofcourse! Ofcourse, for a single file, step number two is enough and it will just convert any PNG to ICO. Saves the trouble of exporting them manually to PNG files all the time.Ģ) go to '' (French language, I'm sorry) and download toYcon (formally named IconBox), install, execute and drop the directory with the icons on the program! Done! Now, execute this file by double-clicking and it will convert als SVG files to PNG files. Then, save the file in the same directory as the icons under the name 'svg2png_256.bat'. Just open notepad and copy paste the following text in it (without the dotted lines)įor /R %%i in (*.svg) do 'C:\Progra~1\Inkscape\inkscape.exe' -f '%%~fi' -e '%%~dpni.png' -w 256 This is what I do:ġ) use a batch file to convert them to PNGĢ) use a program called IconBox or toycon to convert them to windows ICO filesġ) The batch file is a text file that you can make in notepad. I assume we're making a lot of icons, though, and that the icons are saved as svg files in a single directory. I use to make a lot of icons in Inskape for my job, and there are two tools that make this job considerably easier.
