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Hello,

I'm trying to convert a PNG file to a ICO file (favicon) while keeping the PNG transparency intact. I'm doing this with the sample code provided at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/#favicon.

This is my source image, a PNG24 file with transparency: http://www.feitjevandedag.nl/logo.png

This is the code I'm using: The problem is that the background is always white.

I've tried a lot of parameters like "-alpha set", "-alpha background" and tried it without the "-background none" but the background always remains white, setting "-alpha copy" actually makes the black parts transparent. Looking around the web, people claim removing the "-alpha off" from the sample code mentioned above should do the trick but I haven't gotten it to work yet.

I'm using ImageMagick-6.8.9-7-Q16-x64-dll (for Windows).

Any help is appreciated.

Why do you need the '-bordercolor white -border 0' option? Removing this parameters seems to fix the problem. And in nieuwere versies of ImageMagick you can do what you are trying to do much easier:

Thanks a lot dlemstra!

I didn't think that would help, too bad I didn't try it. I'm new to ImageMagick so still need to learn a lot, the code you posted works perfectly and is a lot easier.

You got some Dutch in between the English btw, "nieuwere versies", good thing I am Dutch.

That was added by accident

This does preserve the transparency (from png with alpha trans), but when I add -color 8, to reduce colors, the background color comes back and the image is degraded badly. Is there a way to also reduce .ico file size when converting form a png? The PNG is 300bytes, but when exported by ImageMagick its back to 1500bytes. any suggestions?