Resicon – icons batch resizing tool
Last night when I was working on my pet project (very soon to be released 
) I finally got annoyed enough to take 15 minutes off to create this simple utility tool called Resicon. It is an icon batch resizing utility application. It allows you to resize icon images into a predefined set of sizes like: 16×16, 32×32, 36×36, 48×48, 72×72 and 128×128 or use a custom one.
This is a very handy tool because whenever you build an AIR application either a desktop or a mobile one you have to specify a set of its icons in different sizes. Usually this is done by downscaling a single high resolution image to the required sizes. This repetitive task is really annoying and that is why Resicon was brought to life.
Below is an install badge for the Resicon application, the source code is available in GitHub here.
BTW: Resicon icon was created with the very cool Icon Generator Pro app.
simple things like this make life worth living
Rob Fox
11 Jan 11 at 5:13 pm
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11 Jan 11 at 5:48 pm
Nice. It’s imilar to http://www.justresizeit.com
dede
11 Jan 11 at 7:50 pm
[...] comments Today I published my Resicon application into the Adobe InMarket. At the moment Adobe InMarket is just a frontend for online [...]
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20 Jan 11 at 4:26 pm
[...] As a developer, your first instinct is that there has to be some way of automating this. In fact, one of my coworkers, Piotr Walczyszyn has created one of these. [...]
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26 May 11 at 4:11 pm
Thanks for this, I think I’ll download your source and make my own, need iOS, Android and Playbook and ones I use for web added!
Cheers!
Terry Paton
1 Jun 11 at 1:01 am
Dear Piotr
thanks , it is great app for saving time
Farid Valipourf
1 Jun 11 at 7:46 am
Nice work. According to XML manifest from FB 4.5.1 – it would be worthy to include 114×114
Juraj Michalek
20 Jun 11 at 11:11 pm
This is a great little tool. I tried out a few different tools and definitely like this the most. However – there are a couple of very easy changes that could make it *much* nicer to use.
1) Incorporate the original filename in the output filenames. Currently they’re all named ‘iconxxx’, so if you select the same output directory twice without manually renaming your first set of output files, they are simply overwritten by the second set.
2) Remember the previous output folder selection and use that unless the user selects a different folder. Its a pain to navigate to the same folder for each icon.
Would love it if you were able to add these two features – although I appreciate this was a little side-project.
Graham
14 Sep 11 at 11:16 am