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just ratio between highness and width

As of writing, the installer has 5 detections on VirusTotal.
The uninstaller has 4 detections.

The bat file, magick.exe, and the portable zip have 0 detections.

The False Positives Center has contact info to security companies for false positives.

Or maybe you should use a newer version of NSIS? Just a guess.

The program uses an icon from shell32.dll for the context menu, which is fine. For the Chocolatey Community Repository, I made a free alternative icon, inspired by Microsoft's icon. Feel free to copy it to your repo. Perhaps you can use it as a favicon for the GitHub pages.

As of writing, my package has not been accepted. There is a very long queue.

I don't think it's explicitly disallowed to use not-technically-official-icons for community packages, but, I think it's reasonable. If you or the choco admins, however, disapprove, then I will remove the icon from the package.

It's silly that a program named PNG to ICO doesn't have its own icon!

Icon: https://github.com/virginviolet/chocolatey-packages/tree/main/manual/png-to-ico.install/icon
Chocolatey package: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/png-to-ico.install

Dear @FoxP,

Thanks for your project.

I have a problem, the installer does not ask where I would like to install.
I can not to install in default software folder -> Program Files for example.
Can you create a good install which permit to select where to install and by default in Program Files ?

Thanks in advance.

can you adjust the code to make this happen ? or at least adjust the .bat file for drag&drop multiple files from multiple folders?

Dear @FoxP,

Can you add two versions?

• One for x86 machines
• One for x64 machines

Thanks in advance.

Photoshop has the scaling option "Bicubic Sharper (reduction)", which produces less blurry, more legible images, compared to PNG to ICO. It's more noticable the smaller the image, and on 16x16, it can make a huge difference.

Here are two comparisons

In the Java image, at 256x256, it's actually much sharper than the original image. So, I guess it comes at the cost of authenticity, and it might get oversharpened in some cases. But at lower resolutions, the sharpening is needed. Icons should be legible. There have been cases where I've manually sharpened a photo to a sweet spot in Photoshop, saved it at 256x256, looked fine, then converted with PNG to ICO, and it became way too blurry at lower resolutions.

Image Magick does not have Bicubic Sharper. I tried Lanczos and Box, hardly any difference. But a developer named Jason Summers has managed to imitate Bicubic Sharper rather faithfully with Image Magick. See Notes on Photoshop’s image resize algorithms.
I removed the crop parts of the command (because I did not have time to figure that out), and changed convert to magick (IM says convert is depricated), and the result is barely indistinguishable from Photoshop!

A compromise could be to sharpen at resolutions 128x128 (or 96x96) and below, but use normal resizing on the higher resolutions. I have done it like that one or two times when scaling manually with Photoshop, when I wanted authenticity.

Here are the original pictures:

(The Java image is public domain, the woman is free to use under the Unsplash license, published by the user see plus.)

Dear @FoxP,

I would like to select .ico size, how I can do it?
There is not an option?
Can you add it?

Thanks in advance.

I'm pretty new to Github so I'm sorry if this is not where to add suggestions. I think it'd be a good idea to add the option to hide the CMD window that appears when converting the images. It takes your focus out of the file explorer and it takes a second, would be more convenient not to have it appear in the first place.

I've used it a lot and it's of great help though, so thank you! :)