About GConvert

GConvert is a full-featured icon toolkit that everyone who likes icons should use: with it you can extract, view, create, edit, manage & convert icons without requiring any additional tool or knowledge.

Its basic purpose: GConvert extracts icons from files and displays them in a list: you then select the icon you want and it can converted to the format of your choice. GConvert reads any icon files such as executable, DLL, ICL, OCX, VBX, CPL, BPL, NIL, IL, SCR, CUR, ICNS, ZIP, RSRC files and allows you to save extracted icons as icon, bitmap, PNG and many other popular formats (JPG, GIF...) or even copy them to the Windows clipboard for direct use into your applications, documents, Web pages.

Moreover GConvert offers you more flexibility and functionality than other standard icon extractors: its powerful but easy-to-use features let you do almost everything you want with your icons:

• extracts any icons including all of their images (any size and color depth, including 32-bit icons with alpha channels for Windows« XP) from any files containing icons. Then just select an icon in the main list in order to view all of its images in the Image Viewer instantly.
• creates, opens, edits and manages icon libraries in ICL format (the standard icon library format). Add, rename, edit or remove icons from your icon libraries directly with GConvert. You can also compile them into true 32-bit DLL files (similar to the famous Windows' MORICONS.DLL file) or Zip archives.
• exports selected icons to single icon files, bitmaps, PNG files and many other additional formats thanks to external plug-ins (JPEG, GIF...).
• supports the 32-bit icon format for Windows XP with full alpha blending. GConvert draws XP icons correctly, saves them as they would appear under XP and can also keep the alpha channel when converting icons to PNG files & 32-bit BMP files.
• includes a powerful icon editor which lets you add, edit, remove, resize and generate images for your icons. Create new icons by importing image files and turn them into icon images of any format (from monochrome to 32-bit icons with alpha channel).
• searches for hidden icons on your computer and displays them in a list; you can also export the search results to icon libraries.
• recognizes Macintosh« icons (from 16x16 to OS-X 128x128 thumbnail formats - from 1-bit to 32-bit with alpha channels) stored in ICNS and Macintosh resource fork files. You can then export, edit, convert these icons or even add them to icon libraries.
• reads icons directly from Zip archives so if you download icon archives from the Internet, you do not need to unzip your icons first in order to use them. Zip archives may also be turned into ICL libraries.
• displays icon properties and associated images (including mask, alpha channel bitmaps that you can copy to the clipboard).
• provides you with batch options: you can save or convert several selected icons in one click (with optional image filtering).
• exports icons to a folder or a Web page, or even as Windows cursors (.cur).
• manages your icon favorites (including categories) and your favorite icon directories.
• modifies existing icons in EXE/DLL files.
• and much more.

With its intuitive interface, GConvert can be easily and quickly used without any problems: no complicate menus, buttons or dialogs. Each important command can be instantly accessed with the mouse or keystrokes.

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