Opening Mac Icons

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I was wondering how you open a Mac icon file on a pc (assuming theres a way)... Can you open them in photoshop or something?

Josh

#78262

you got me

do you mean .sit's? if you do, get stuffit for windows. if not, i have no idea

#78266

icon workshop should let you open mac icon files on a pc, although I have never gotten it to work, but try it you may have better luck

#78268

There is a tutorial somewhere on this site. It involves Stuffit and another program, I forget. But look for Mac icons to PC, or something like that.

#78269

Just to clarify, the .sit file is just an archive file containing one or more icons, but not all Mac icons will necessarily come in a .sit file. Axialis IconWorkshop will open Mac-format icons (.icns, .rsc) quite easily.

#78270

Yeah I already knew about the .sit thing. I just wasnt sure where to go after .sit.

Josh

#78277

After uncompressing the Mac icons from the sit files, open the files up in Axialis Iconworkshop and convert them to Windows ico format.

#78385

u have a good tutorial and a guide to converting Mac icons on www.xicons.com

it gives u the settings for both Axialis and StuffIt.

Photo678 - Read the tutorial, i`m guessing that u hvn`t set StuffIt correctly

U need to go to > Options>Cross Platform>

Convert Text to Win Format >never

Save Mac Files In Binary Format>Always

Add File Extension>Never

Hope this helps ;)

#78388

Normally what I do after uncompressing the files:

(1) Start Axialis Iconworkshop

(2) Choose the Explorer option (Ctrl+E)

(3) Browse to the folder containing these Mac icons

(4) Select all the files (Ctrl+A)

(5) Batch-convert selected Mac icons to ico format (Ctrl+Shift+C).

#78406

Step 5 could also be:

Batch Convert Mac icons to Windows icons (Ctrl+Shift+M)

#78712

If you're using Linux, you could use icon2png Linux Edition (http://www.bearca.com/). It works very well. Someone maybe able to compile it for Windows with Cygwin, if someone was up to the task. I prefer icon2png over IconWorkshop. I've had better results with it.

#78720

if you change the file extension from rsrc rsc, it should read it in icon workshop. thats how i do it

#79066