On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:24:51 +0400 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, john Culleton wrote: > > > But a longer lasting solution to changing sizes would be to redo > > them in svg via Inkscape. Then any size png icon could be created > > as needed in the size needed by the developers. > > Unfortunately, no. You still have to draw versions for different > resolutions, because display graphics = pixel alignment. You can't > get that automagically by just scaling down things. So SVG only > allows to tweak things easier. > > See this for illustration: http://i.imgur.com/atDpC.jpg > The icon are: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16. > > I zoomed in so that you could see the differences introduced manually > to fit destination resolution. > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net Another thought: prepare the initial icon in a large size and then downsize as needed in e.g., Gimp. IMO the icon need not be elaborate or have fine detail at any size. It is after all just a symbol. If we can upscale or downscale fonts more or leas without limit we should be able to do the same with a "font" of icons, similar to dingbats. Just trying to be helpful.
