Aha-soft IconUtils
Version: 1.14 (Build 2003-Mar-18)
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Hardware requirements:
32MB RAM, Pentium-133 MHz, 5 MB on hard drive.

IconUtils is a software package that includes ArtIcons Pro 3.26,
ArtCursors 3.0, AhaView 2.04, Any to Icon 2.0 and Icon to Any 2.0.


With IconUtils you can:

* Express your artistic nature and create your own unique icons 
* Convert existing images and use them as icons 
* Give the unique look and feel to your desktop 
* Customize the icons used to display various 
folders to be able to distinguish them at a glance 


ArtIcons Pro - icon editor and icon library manager

ArtIcons allows you to find, create, edit, import and export
icons and manage icon libraries. With this powerful utility 
you can create and edit icons in either standard or custom
sizes, in color depths up to 32-bit True Color. ArtIcons is 
the first tool that directly supports the new icon format introduced 
in Windows XP. ArtIcons contains various graphic tools
including enhanced gradient and chess fill. You can convert images 
to icons, import icons from cursor and library files and even from 
executables. You can scan files and folders for icons
and arrange icons into libraries. 


ArtCursors - cursor editor and cursor library manager

ArtCursors allows you to find and extract cursors, create
and edit cursors, import and export cursors and manage
cursor libraries. Use this program to create and
edit static and animated cursors with color depths
up to up to 32-bit True Color. ArtCursors contains different
paint tools, including enhanced gradient fills. You can
convert images to cursors and import cursors from icon and
library files and from executables.


Any to Icon - icon converter

Any to Icon allows you to convert multiple BMP, JPEG, GIF,
PNG, WBMP, XPM, XBM, PSD and WMF images to Windows icons in 
batch mode. It also breaks down entire icon libraries into
individual icons. You can change color resolution and size
to create customized icons.

 
Icon to Any - icon converter

Icon to Any allows you to convert Windows icons and cursors
into BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, ICO, CUR, WBMP, PSD, XPM, XBM and 
RC formats. It has a wizard style interface. It's simple to
process multiple files at once. You can find icons and make
images for use on Web pages.


AhaView - handy picture viewer and converter.

This viewer supports all popular graphic formats, including
JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, CUR, ANI, WBMP, XPM, XBM, PSD.
You can browse images in thumbnail mode, view pictures full
screen with zooming features, convert images to JPEG, PNG,
BMP formats and manage files.


Limitations in trial version

Common: Nag screen; 30 days trial period
ArtCursors and ArtIcons Pro: Restricted scanning for icons and cursors 
Any to Icon and Icon to Any: 5 files can be converted at once 


History

18.02.2003 Version 1.14
ArtIcons changes:
  Added: Ability to customize the default palette
            for creating 8-bit images
  Added: Alternative button images
  Added: Support for X Pixmap (XPM) and X Bitmap (XBM) formats
  Added: Ability to export (import) multiple icons
              to (from) image strips in BMP and PNG formats
  Added: Export to WBMP format
  Added: Dutch and Czech interfaces
ArtCursors changes:
  Added: Ability to export (import) multiple icons
             to (from) image strips in BMP and PNG formats
  Added: Ability to customize the default palette
            for creating 8-bit images
  Added: Support for windows 2000/XP smooth cursors in 
       32-bit color depth with 8-bit alpha-channel
  Added: Drop shadow, smooth, negative, opacity, colorize effects
  Added: Support for ICC icon collection format
  Added: Support for X Pixmap (XPM), X Bitmap (XBM),
       Adobe Photoshop (PSD), WAP Bitmap (WBMP) formats
  Added: Support for semitransparent PNG images
  Added: Actual transparency use while moving or copying images
  Added: RGB lock mode. It allows to modify pixels transparency
       keeping pixels color
  Added: Transparency lock mode. It allows to modify
       pixels color keeping pixels transparency
  Changed: The user interface and functions are now identical 
                  with that of ArtIcons Pro 
AhaView changes:
  Added: Support for X Pixmap (XPM) and X Bitmap(XBM) formats
Any to Icon and Icon to Any changes:
  Added: Support for Adobe Photoshop, X Pixmap (XPM) 
       and X Bitmap (XBM) formats
  Removed: Limitations for all formats in the unregistered version
  Modified: 5 files can be converted at once in 
       the unregistered version

16.11.2002 Version 1.13
ArtIcons changes:
  Added: German interface
  Added: Support for ICC icon collection format

24.08.2002 Version 1.12
ArtIcons changes:
  Fixed: Problem with changing the folder icons
  Fixed: Problem with saving icons after adding new images

24.07.2002 Version 1.11
ArtIcons changes:
  Added: Romanian interface
AhaView changes:
  Added: Targa images support
  Added: Full-screen mode customization
  Fixed: Some problems with 32-bit BMP files

23.06.2002 Version 1.10
ArtIcons, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, AhaView changes:
  Added: Support for semitrasparent PNG images

14.06.2002 Version 1.09
ArtIcons changes:
  Added: Italian interface

16.05.2002 IconUtils 1.08
ArtIcons changes:
  Added: Actual transparency use while moving or copying images
  Added: RGB lock mode - allows to modify pixels transparency keeping
       pixels color
  Added: Transparency lock mode - allows to modify pixels color keeping
       pixels transparency
  Added: Opacity effect
  Added: Autostretch for color palette of more than 16 colors
  Added: French interface
  Fixed: Casual disappearing of selected area while moving or copying
ArtCursors changes:
  Fixed: Casual disappearing of selected area while moving or copying

21.04.2002 IconUtils 1.07
Any to Icon changes:
  Fixed: Some JPEG files are not recognized
AhaView changes:
  Fixed: Selected thumbnail image is invisible
  with some video drivers in 32 BPP True Color video mode 
ArtCursors changes:
  Fixed: Selected image is invisible with some video drivers
  in 32 BPP True Color video mode

23.03.2002 IconUtils 1.06
ArtIcons Pro changes:
  Fixed: Problems with last icon update in some .dll files 
  Modified: "Select gradient" dialog

18.01.2002 IconUtils 1.05
ArtIcons Pro changes:
  Added: Colorize effect
  Fixed: Problems with icon customizing under Windows XP 
  Fixed: Problems with some .psd files
Any to Icon changes:
  Fixed: Problems with some .psd files

26.12.2001 IconUtils 1.04
ArtIcons Pro changes:
  Added: Ability to change icon size and resolution inside program files
  Added: Chinese (BIG5) interface

18.12.2001 IconUtils 1.03
ArtIcons Pro changes:
  Added: Ability to change icons inside program files
  Added: Icon image test
  Added: Preview area
  Added: Window position saving
  Added: Ability to add multiple images to an icon at once
  Added: Spanish language
  Added: Chinese (BG) interface

30.11.2001 IconUtils 1.02
Any to Icon changes:
  Added: Support for Adobe Photoshop PSD format
  Added: Constrain proportions option
Icon to Any changes:
  Added: Frame resolution filter
ArtCursors changes:
  Fixed: Problem with artist name in animated cursors

18.11.2001 IconUtils 1.01
ArtIcons Pro changes:
  Added: Grayscale effect
  Fixed: Problems with some .psd files

2001-Oct-27 IconUtils 1.0
Release


The latest release of the application can be downloaded at the 
following locations: 

http://www.aha-soft.com/iconutils/iconutils.exe
http://www.iconutils.com/iconutils/iconutils.exe

Links to other download locations can be found at:

http://www.aha-soft.com/download.htm
http://www.iconutils.com/download.htm


You're welcome to submit any questions, suggestions and comments concerning
our software. Please let us know what you would like to see in the future 
releases.


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