The Microsoft Windows Icon format is used on Windows for displaying icons. It supports multiple icon sizes and color depths.
A related format is the Microsoft Windows Cursor. The export dialog shows all the icons available. For each icon size, there are several settings that can be changed.
- Save type
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For each icon size you can select in what format it should be saved. The available choices are:
- 1 bpp, 1-bit alpha, 2-slot palette
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Indexed format with only two colors.
- 4 bpp, 1-bit alpha, 16-slot palette
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Indexed format with only 16 colors.
- 8 bpp, 1-bit alpha, 256-slot palette
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Indexed format with up to 256 colors.
- 24 bpp, 1-bit alpha, no palette
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For RGB without alpha channel.
- 32 bpp, 8-bit alpha, no palette
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The most common format is RGB with alpha channel.
- Compressed (PNG)
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When checked, the icons are saved as compressed PNG images. Note that not all programs support reading this type of icon.
