Does anyone know how to make .xpm files in Windows? What program is needed?
Thanx!
What’s an .xpm file, i mean what’s supposed to be in it?
The Sun Solaris Unix systems at school use them for desktop icons. I want to make an icon for one of my shortcuts but I don’t have a program that even recognizes what an .xpm file is let alone make one.
After looking it up on the net I have come to think that it is somewhat in the same family as .xbm files, but don’t ask me what they are either. 
Have you tried opening them with some type of paint program? I was about to mention MS Paint, but realized that only comes with Microsoft Windows 
Oh wait, you want to open them in Windows? Then try MS Paint
I figured out how to edit them.
I tried Paint Shop Pro 7 and The Gimp for Windows but neither could handdle .xpm files (XPM was disabled in The Gimp). I didn’t try MS Paint yet, but it usually sucks at anything besides .bmp and .ico files, but I’ll give it a try tonight.
I got it working at school with The Gimp for Linux in case you’re interested.
Originally posted by dominique
[B]I figured out how to edit them.
I tried Paint Shop Pro 7 and The Gimp for Windows but neither could handdle .xpm files (XPM was disabled in The Gimp). I didn’t try MS Paint yet, but it usually sucks at anything besides .bmp and .ico files, but I’ll give it a try tonight.
I got it working at school with The Gimp for Linux in case you’re interested. [/B]
Well, then use GIMP (http://www.gimp.org). I know how to do xpm’s from Java, but it’s something
that will take much more time then intall Linux over your windows :).
John.
I’ll just use GIMP at school, it’ll suffice for my needs.
Justin, just to let you know, I tried it in MS Paint but like I suspected it didn’t work.
Originally posted by dominique
[B]I’ll just use GIMP at school, it’ll suffice for my needs.
Justin, just to let you know, I tried it in MS Paint but like I suspected it didn’t work. [/B]
Ok, have you tried to do search on download.com for xpm?
Or on google.com for xpm, windows. Try, it might help you.
Yeah I did. I found one program that would have done the job except it always put a watermarkon the image if you don’t register the program.
Thanx anyways.