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A FREE ! converter from PNG, ICO .. to BMP (Alpha-Channel)

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:52 pm
by ukoenig
Hello,

after long searching and testing in the internet,
i found a tool ( freeware ) to convert any PNG, ICO, GIF ...
to BMP ( keeping the Alpha-Channel ).
I don't want to use Photoshop ( to much work )

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DEFINE BITMAP oNewBrush1 FILENAME "test.bmp"
ABPaint( hDC, 0, -10, oNewBrush1:hBitmap, 255 ) // 0-255 transparency level


I tested many Applications.
After converting from PNG to BMP, there was no Alpha-Channel.

Now i found a working one with export PNG to Transparent BMP :
http://icofx.ro/

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Regards
Uwe :lol:

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:33 am
by Carlos Mora
The Gimp, wich is free and Open Source, can be used to transform PNG to 32 bits BMPs. Just load the PNG and use 'Save As' .. 32 bit bmp.

Regards,

Carlos.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 12:29 pm
by Antonio Linares
Carlos,

I agree, Gimp is excellent! :-)

Alpha-Channel

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:30 pm
by ukoenig
Thank you very much for the information,

I heard about GIMP, but didn't test it.
I opened a ICO and PNG- file and saved them as
BMP with Alpha-Channel with a good quality.
It is a good solution, to export quickly ICO and PNG to BMP.

Regards
Uwe :lol: