Aha-soft Any to Icon
Version: 2.12 (Build 2004-Jul-22) 
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.
Hardware requirements:
8MB RAM, Pentium-100 MHz, 2MB Hard Disk

Aha-Soft Any to Icon is TRIAL SOFTWARE.

Any to Icon converts BMP, WBMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMF,
XPM, XBM, TGA, ANI and CUR formats into Windows icons.
You can add files and folders from Windows Explorer or
other file shells using drag and drop. You also can paste
bitmaps from the clipboard and change color resolution
and size to create customized icons. It's possible
to convert 256-color icons into True Color icons and
vice versa. Any to Icon supports the new icon format
used in Windows XP (32-bit icons with 8-bit
alpha-channel).

Plus, you can break down entire icon libraries into
individual icons. Any to Icon allows you to extract
icons from folders and libraries and place them into
the directory of your choice.

The application has a wizard interface, making
it simple to process multiple files at once.
Command line interface is available.

You can find many images on the Internet and convert
them to icons for use on your Windows desktop,
in applications and much more.


-=User Guide=-

This product has an easy to use, wizard style interface.

1. Start the program
2. To add files:
 a. Click the <Add files> button and select one or more
files from the Open File dialog.
 b. Drag and drop files from the File Manager.
 c. Click the <Add folder> button and select a folder and
a file mask.
 d. Click the <Paste> button to paste images from
the clipboard.
3. Click the <Next> button and select the desired format
and directory destination.
4. Click the <Next> button. Select a transparency
selection method.
5. Click the <Next> button and wait. Press the <Terminate>
button to stop the process.
6. Click <Repeat> to continue or <Finish> to exit. 

Command line options are discribed in options.txt. 


-=Supported formats=-

ICO - Windows Icon
ANI - Animated Windows Cursor
CUR - Static Windows Cursor
BMP - Windows Bitmap
JPG - JPEG JFIF Image
GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PSD - Adobe Photoshop Image
TGA - Truevision Targa Image
XPM  - X Pixmap
XBM - X Bitmap
WBMP - WAP Bitmap
ICL - Icon Library


-=Trial version limitations=-
- Nag-screen
- 5 files can be converted only at once
- 30 trial executions


-=Registration=-

To purchase this product, please visit
http://www.aha-soft.com/reg.htm.
After purchasing you will receive a registration key via email. 


-=History=-

2004-Jul-22 Any to Icon 2.12
Modified: Help file format is changed to .chm

2004-Jun-15 Any to Icon 2.11
Fixed: Problems with some .bmp files

2004-Mar-10 Any to Icon 2.1
Added: Support for Truevision Targa images (TGA)
Added: Command line interface

2003-Mar-07 Any to Icon 2.0
Added: Support for X Pixmap (XPM)
  and X Bitmap (XBM) formats
Modified: Any format can be converted
  with unregistered version
Modified: 5 files can be converted at once 
  in the unregistered version

2002-Aug-22 Any to Icon 1.26
Fixed: Wrong indication of the number of trial runs

2002-Jun-23 Any to Icon 1.25
Added: Support for semitrasparent PNG images

2002-Apr-21 Any to Icon 1.24
Fixed: Some JPEG files are not recognized

2002-Jan-16 Any to Icon 1.23
Fixed: Problems with some Adobe Photoshop PSD files

2001-Nov-28 Any to Icon 1.22
Added: Support for Adobe Photoshop PSD format
Added: Constrain proportions option 

2001-Sep-05 Any to Icon 1.2
Added: Support for the new icon format used in
Windows XP (32-bit icons with 8-bit alpha-channel)

2001-Apr-18 Any to Icon 1.1
Added: WAP Bitmap format conversion
Fixed: Small bugs

2001-Mar-05 Any to Icon 1.0
Base version.


The latest release of the program can be downloaded from the 
following pages: 

http://www.aha-soft.com/download.htm,
http://www.iconutils.com/download.htm.


Copyright (C) 2000-2004, Aha-soft, All rights reserved
Home page: http://www.aha-soft.com
Order page: http://www.aha-soft.com/anytoicon/reg.htm
Support: mailto:support@aha-soft.com
Sales: mailto:sales@aha-soft.com
