The "Export as Favicon" command creates a favicon file from the current document, which must be 16px by 16px. You can create a document of this size with the "New Favicon - 16X16" command. If you want to create a favicon that also contains a 32px icon, the document must have a second page whose size is 32px by 32px. The easiest way to create this is with the "New Favicon - 16X16 and 32X32" command, which will create a new document with the appropriately sized pages.

When you run the command, it will ask you to select the folder where the favicon should be created. After you click the Select button, the document will be exported to the selected folder in favicon format. The file will be called "favicon.ico"; the command will ask whether you want to overwrite any existing favicon in that folder.

Note that this command currently works only on Windows. It will install on the Mac, but won't actually work. On Vista, you will need to right-click the Extension Manager and then select "Run as Administrator" to install it successfully (unless you have turned off the User Account Control).

Thanks to Matthias Benkmann for creating the png2ico utility that this command uses to create the favicon. http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware

And thanks to Michael Geary for compling png2ico for the Mac.


Release history:

0.9.0: Create temp files in the system's temp directory to avoid UAC problems on Vista.

0.8.1: Tried adding support for the Mac.

0.8.0: Initial release.