What is Iconographer?
    Iconographer is a an icon editor. It allows you to both change the icons of items, as well as edit the icon resources used by various programs. Iconographer has been created from the ground up to edit the new, Mac OS 8.5+, 32-bit icons with 8-bit masks. In addition, it allows you to work with icons from other platforms (at this moment, Windows .ico files and Mac OS X Server .tiff files). At the same time, it works on any Power Macintosh that has the Appearance Manager installed.

    Iconographer is shareware, if you find yourself using it often, please pay the $15 fee. Registrations are handled by Kagi, an established shareware payment service run by Kee Nethery. For more details on registration, please see the registration info page.

How do I use Iconographer?
    Iconographer attempts to follow all of the established Mac OS human interface guidelines. If previous you have used any graphics editor, you should be familiar with the manner in which Iconographer operates. A typical editing session might look something like this:

    1 Open a file or folder with Iconographer.
    This can be done either by dragging a file onto Iconographer's icon, or by using the Open Icon command from the File menu.
    2 Edit the icon with the provided tools.
    More info is available in the Tools section.
    3 Save the icon and quit Iconographer.
    Iconographer saves in both the new Mac OS 8.5+ icon format, and the old one for previous systems, thus your icons will be visible to all users. In addition, Iconographer supports saving in the Windows .ico format.

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