Icon-tool-mac NPM

icon-tool-mac

TypeScript tool to create .icns with a built-in icns generator or the macOS icontool

Supports PNG, SVG and many formats for input. outputs icns files with PNG and RLE-encoded image formats

Building and running

$ yarn install

$ yarn build

$ bin/make-icns iconfile.png [output-name]

Installing

$ yarn add --global icon-tool-mac

$ npm install -g icon-tool-mac

Usage when installed globally

$ make-icns iconfile.png [output-name]

Installing and using as a library

$ yarn add icon-tool-mac

$ npm i icon-tool-mac

TypeScript

import { IconCreatorSharp } from 'icon-tool-mac';

let creator = new IconCreatorSharp(source_file);

creator.convert()
.then((icon: Buffer) => {
  // .. do something with the .icns buffer
})
.catch((error: string) => console.error(error));

If you want to do additional image manipulations before creating the .icns:

//Additional import
import { SharpInstance } from 'sharp';

creator.setImageManipulation((image:SharpInstance,size:number) => {
  image.flop(true);
});

JavaScript

const IconCreatorSharp = require('icon-tool-mac').IconCreatorSharp;

let creator = new IconCreator(source_file);

creator.convert()
.then((icon) => {
  // .. do something with the .icns buffer
})
.catch(error => console.error(error));