Apple Icon Image
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| Apple Icon Image | |
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| File extension: | .icns |
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| Type code: | icns |
| Uniform Type Identifier: | com.apple.icns |
| Developed by: | Apple Computer |
| Type of format: | icon file format |
The Apple Icon Image format is the icon format used in Apple Computer's Mac OS X. It supports icons of 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 pixels, with both 1- and 8-bit alpha channels and multiple image states (example: open and closed folders). The fixed-size icons can be scaled by the operating system and displayed at any intermediate size.
[edit] See also
- Icon Composer
- icns Browser
- The Iconfactory
- IconBuilder
- Wikipedia:Icons
- compare: ICO (icon image file format)
[edit] External links
- Compare with Windows XP Icons
- icns2png - an abandoned piece of free software (GPL) to convert .icns files to PNG
- icns - a project aiming to adopt and continue icns2png development and develop more icns related software and documentation.
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