QUESTION :
I’d like to convert svg icons to windows icons and mac icons. A free option would be the best.
ANSWER :
There’s a free online tool available for this purpose: http://iconverticons.com/
The gimp editor can open svg files and save them as ico files. From http://www.gimp.org/features/:
File Formats
The file format support ranges from
the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF,
PNG, TIFF to special use formats such
as the multi-resolution and
multi-color-depth Windows icon files.
To expand on @Colonel Panic’s original answer, which I feel is best, on a Mac you’ll need to first install ImageMagick’s CLI tools with:
brew install imagemagick
This provides the convert
command, which can then be used to create a valid Mac ICO from an SVG. You’ll need to resize the SVG to a valid ICO size for the OS. This is the command I ended up using to do this myself:
convert icon.svg -resize 256x256 icon.ico
ImageMagick is well documented in the following places: