ICO Multi-page Files?

[Mike Truly]

I have some ICO files which are multi-pages (they have 2 pages). If I go and adust the Hue of the icon and then try to save it, I get a warning about it being multi-page and it will only save the current page. Is there any way to save both pages back into the icon?

Thanks!

[Clo]

Mike Truly

Hello Mike !

• That isn't possible easily as one go… You might extract the two pages in a temp. dir., change the page you want then rebuild the multi-page ICO overwriting the original…
- You can perform this using i.e. Greenfish Icon Editor Pro, gratis and no install…
- With that tool, you may change a single page and save the whole file directly

KR
Claude
Clo

[Mike Truly]

Claude,

Thanks very much for this info. I have lots of icons (multi-page) icons which contain the color blue and was hoping to batch-adjust the hue on all of them so that all the blue was changed to another color (such as purple) at one time. I thought XNView would be perfect for something like this but it will not save multi-page ICOs. Photoshop will not even open them (which is absurd considering how much I have paid for that software). Will look into that software link.

Thanks!

[Mike Truly]

Claude,

Thanks very much for the link to that icon editing software... it works great. I do wish it had the capability to batch adjust images (it can batch convert but not batch adjust like XNView does) but I did them one-by-one and it works great.

Thanks again!

[Clo]

Mike Truly

Hi Mike !

• Glad to hear that you could solve the issue with GFIE !
- Yes, I forgot to mention that it doesn't support all operations in a batch, this indeed could be a “plus”…
- Unfortunately, currently the development is not stopped, but “on idle”, so we miss still a few features like this one (also the support of 32 BPP BMP, planned though).

KR
Claude
Clo