Desktop app to search for graphics & icons >BY PALETTE

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Hi friends. I’m hoping I don’t have to do this through image magick. I have a mySQL search | filter | find question related to graphics and icon files but I don’t even know if it will work. I want to search my drives for graphics & icons rendered in the Windows 16-color palette.

EXAMPLE:

[list=1]
[]I have 2,000 graphics & icon files
[]in the following 4 formats: ICO, PNG, GIF, BMP
[*]Windows XP has never indexed thumbnails for any of these files[/list]

It’s no. 3 that is my first issue. Is the palette itself contained in the file’s RAW data? or must it first have to be extracted (eg. in a thumbail)? Thanks.

[chrisofarabia]

When you right-click on one of these files, is the information you’re looking for displayed anywhere? If it is, then you may be in with a chance of searching like that.

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You mean its properties?

[chrisofarabia]

That’s what I was thinking. If the info is there, and Windows can read it, then it ought to be possible; just don’t ask me how.

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hmmmm. This might be discoverable with one of Nir Sofer’s utilities. But then what?

[chrisofarabia]

I just looked at a file on my Mac in Finder and can see this info. There’s nothing to say that’s all there is to find, but it does give a bit of a clue as to the meta data stored along with the image itself.

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Shoot. A different animal completely.

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Very interesting indeed.
Will report back, although I have a tendency to hangout on his site and never want to leave!

[chrisofarabia]

This could be interesting tooo - https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

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That’s JPG camera data.

[chrisofarabia]

There are a whole bunch of other file types listed below too, with lots of links out to the kind of info that might be available.