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+# WARNING this script doesn't work, although it seems like it should.
+# The equivalent of this script works on windows imagemagick.
+# See makeWinIcon.bat
+
+# Althoug it doesn't work committing this file to git anyway
+# for future reference. Maybe it can be fixed.
+
+#Shell script to convert a image into win icon format. The script uses
+# unix commandline tool 'imagemagick' and the 'specs' for the images to
+# insert into the .ico file are as follows (according to Martin Lippert)
+# 
+# - the 16x, 32x, and 48x needs to be in the file twice - with 32bit color and with 8bit color
+# - the 256x icon has to be 32bit only, but has to be uncompressed
+
+# code from here: https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/neoclipse/pull/56
+
+# This command can be used to check whether the contents of the .ico file
+# looks ok:
+#
+#    identify -format '%f %p/%n %m %C/%Q %r %G %A %z\n' sts.ico
+        
+convert sts256.png -compress none \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 16x16 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 24x24 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 32x32 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 48x48 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 16x16 -colors 256 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 24x24 -colors 256 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 32x32 -colors 256 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 48x48 -colors 256 -compress none \) \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 256x256 -compress none \) \
+    -delete 0 sts.ico
+
+convert sts512.png -compress none \
+    \( -clone 0 -resize 256x256 -compress none \) \
+    -delete 0 sts.ico
+    
+convert sts256.png -compress none sts.ico
+
+identify -format '%f %p/%n %m %C/%Q %r %G %A %z\n' sts.ico