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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# This script regenerates the .icns files for MacOS application packaging.
+# You need to be running on MacOS to use it (for iconutil)
+# You also need imagemagick + rsvg installed, with something like:
+# brew install imagemagick --with-librsvg
+
+import os
+from shutil import copy, rmtree
+from subprocess import call
+
+ICON_SOURCES = "../bitmaps_png/sources/"
+
+ICONS = [
+    ("bitmap2component", ("bitmap2component",), "../bitmap2component"),
+    ("cvpcb", ("cvpcb", "cvpcb_doc"), "../cvpcb"),
+    ("eeschema", ("eeschema", "eeschema_doc"), "../eeschema"),
+    ("gerbview", ("gerbview", "gerbview_doc"), "../gerbview"),
+    ("kicad", ("kicad", "kicad_doc"), "../kicad"),
+    ("pagelayout_editor", ("pl_editor", "pl_editor_doc"), "../pagelayout_editor"),
+    ("pcbcalculator", ("pcb_calculator",), "../pcb_calculator"),
+    ("pcbnew", ("pcbnew", "pcbnew_doc"), "../pcbnew")
+]
+
+SIZES = [
+    ("!16x16", ("16x16",)),
+    ("!32x32", ("16x16@2x", "32x32")),
+    ("!64x64", ("32x32@2x",)),
+    ("!128x128", ("128x128",)),
+    ("!256x256", ("128x128@2x", "256x256")),
+    ("!512x512", ("256x256@2x", "512x512")),
+    ("!1024x1024", ("512x512@2x",))
+]
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    for src, dest, finaldir in ICONS:
+
+        src = ICON_SOURCES + "icon_" + src + ".svg"
+        iconset = dest[0] + ".iconset"
+        os.mkdir(iconset)
+
+        for size, outputs in SIZES:
+            dest_path = os.path.join(iconset, "icon_" + outputs[0] + ".png")
+            print size, src, dest_path
+            call(["convert", "-background", "none", "-density", "5000",
+                  "-resize", size, src, dest_path])
+            for duplicate in outputs[1:]:
+                dupe_path = os.path.join(iconset, "icon_" + duplicate + ".png")
+                copy(dest_path, dupe_path)
+
+        call(["iconutil", "-c", "icns", iconset])
+
+        rmtree(iconset)
+
+        for dupe in dest[1:]:
+            copy(dest[0] + ".icns", os.path.join(finaldir, dupe + ".icns"))
+
+        copy(dest[0] + ".icns", finaldir)
+
+        os.remove(dest[0] + ".icns")