Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.
where do I find BootCamp on Leopard? I thought it came pre-installed. BootCamp is in the Utilities section of the Applications folder. It will ask for the original Leopard install disk, however, to load the necessary drivers into Windows, so I hope they gave you that DVD! Can't say; never bothered with it. I have four other OSes on tap whenever I need them with Parallels. The notion of requiring a reboot (not to mention the time-sink of reformatting partitions) just to use another OS seems primitive these days. I recommend using BootCamp not because I want to reboot all the time, but because Parallels (and VMWare Fusion) can use the BootCamp partition for it's (not-so) virtual disk, and this way you have only one Windows configuration to worry about. When you wanna access Windows from within Mac OS X, you just fire up Parallels. When you need to run in native Windows mode, you reboot into BootCamp. And there are indeed some instances where booting into Windows natively is required. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.
Hiya, I've used Pixel (www.kanzelsberger.com) with its icon template. Nice licence: Licenced to you, not the machine. Multiplatform too. I used Pixen (www.opensword.org) some time ago, but can't see if it does what you need. LiveQuartz, Mac only (www.livequartz.com) can read icon files. I haven't updated that in a while, so not sure if that can save also. Cheers, Luis. On 9 Jan 2008, at 03:55, Chipp Walters wrote: Well, my MacBook came backed fixed. Turns out they pretty much gave me a new Mac, including a new hard drive and the Leopard OS. Gone is my dual boot config, Parallels and Photoshop, plus all my files. Not too big a deal as it is all backed up. But...Since Photoshop 7 doesn't run on Leopard (did on Tiger), I need to find another alternative to creating .icns files on the Mac. I can create a standard 128 x 128 png on the PC and would like a program to convert it to the requisite Mac .icns file...any ideas? I certainly don't want to upgrade my old version of Photoshop for only this function. So, what are you all using for this sort of thing? Also, where do I find BootCamp on Leopard? I thought it came pre- installed. TIA, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.
Hi, Not only may Iconographer cut off parts of your icon (something I haven't experienced myself), it creates corrupted masks for ico files for Windows. Like Bill, I'd recommend Apple's Icon Composer. Works great for me and is free. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com Op 9-jan-2008, om 7:50 heeft Scott Rossi het volgende geschreven: Don't want to dis a solution that works for people but apparently Iconographer hasn't been updated in years. See this post from way back: http://www.nabble.com/Make-icons-on-a-Mac--to228853.html#a232690 YMMV. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac., Bill Marriott wjm at wjm.org
Bill Marriott wrote: I recommend using BootCamp not because I want to reboot all the time, but because Parallels (and VMWare Fusion) can use the BootCamp partition for it's (not-so) virtual disk, and this way you have only one Windows configuration to worry about. Sounds good, unless you need to support both Vista and XP, and here we also support Win2K. That's three, and with Rev 2.9 we're now running Linux regularly too, bringing it to four. That would be a lot of partitions to maintain, but with Parallels they're just files. And I can back 'em up and replace them without ever needing to reformat the drive. For cross-platform development I would consider it essential to have regular access to both Vista and XP at a minimum. Most computers are running XP, but Vista will eclipse it sooner or later. And while the market for commercial proprietary apps on Linux may still be considered somewhat mixed, it's worth getting into it now and establishing a presence in that community for the inevitable day when it becomes the dominant OS. Sure, that'll be several years, but why wait for the gold rush until after all the hills have been claimed? And in the meantime it's the fastest-growing OS market around, so getting in early can only be a good thing (many thanks to the Rev team for v2.9!). When you wanna access Windows from within Mac OS X, you just fire up Parallels. When you need to run in native Windows mode, you reboot into BootCamp. And there are indeed some instances where booting into Windows natively is required. Depends on what native means. There are various levels of virtualization, and each has its own compromises: API, OS, BIOS, idiosyncrasies about the motherboard design. The older virtualization schemes like VirtualPC had to emulate all of them. While slow for most tasks, it's worth noting that once Rev was loaded and running most non-display tasks (such as string processing) ran measurably faster under emulation than they did in the native Mac version on the same machine. Parallels on Intel Macs lets the hosted OS and its applications make direct use of the Intel processor, so performance is often on par with a native machine, and hardware compatibility issues with the processor should be no problem. The virtualized elements are mostly interfaces with the hardware, such as the display, disk controllers, etc., and integration extras like Clipboard sharing (which wouldn't be possible with BootCamp since there is no OS X running to have a Clipboard to share). BootCamp takes this a step further toward native, but still lacks a BIOS and other motherboard components specific to Windows-spec machines. After all, if it wasn't virtualizing at least some things it wouldn't be needed. While BootCamp is less virtual than Parallels, for myself if I need a truly native experience I just use a PC. They're dirt cheap to buy ($200-$400 if you don't need games-level performance), cheaper for me than the time required to set up multiple partitions on my Mac every time I add a new OS to our support mix. But most critically for my workflow, with a physical PC I don't have to shut down my Mac work just to work on Windows. It also mean that if your Mac needs repairs or is tied up doing something, you still have another computer to fall back on - load Firefox, Thunderbird, and Rev, and you're good to go. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
BootCamp (was: Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.)
Hi Richard, Some great points you raise. I'm not at all against using Parallels/VMWare, but I think it's desirable to have a single Windows partition accessible via BootCamp. These days, it probably makes sense for the BootCamp partition to be Vista. Here's what I consider to be required reading: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.24/24.02/VirtualizationBenchmark/ or http://tinyurl.com/yvfy9k As you can see, virtual machines actually outperform native Windows XP in some circumstances! As for why I need to boot into true-blue Windows, there are some programs that don't work right when run under virtualization. One of them is a utility I use to use my cell phone as a modem. It's not available for Mac, and the virtual machines assume you're going to use the Mac's networking hardware, not the virtual machine's. Having the BootCamp partition on my Mac has saved my hide more than a couple times just by virtue of being able to get online when other net connectivity was not available. (And EVDO proved to be pretty snappy.) As the article above shows, the virtual software runs Vista like molasses. So speed is a reason to put Vista on BootCamp. Another reason is games. The VMs do a poor job currently of emulating DirectX. I don't see it as much of a sacrifice to maintain 10GB or 15GB of space for BootCamp. It's dual-purposed for the VM software, and it's there when I need it. For everything else (Linux), I would use a virtual machine. Bill ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac., Bill Marriott wjm at wjm.org
On Jan 9, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: And while the market for commercial proprietary apps on Linux may still be considered somewhat mixed, it's worth getting into it now and establishing a presence in that community for the inevitable day when it becomes the dominant OS. Sure, that'll be several years, but why wait for the gold rush until after all the hills have been claimed? And in the meantime it's the fastest-growing OS market around, so getting in early can only be a good thing (many thanks to the Rev team for v2.9!). Here is one article that thinks different. http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/apple-is-killing-linux-on-the-desktop/ Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.
On Jan 9, 2008 1:55 PM, Chipp Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my MacBook came backed fixed. Turns out they pretty much gave me a new Mac, including a new hard drive and the Leopard OS. Gone is my dual boot config, Parallels and Photoshop, plus all my files. Not too big a deal as it is all backed up. But...Since Photoshop 7 doesn't run on Leopard (did on Tiger), I need to find another alternative to creating .icns files on the Mac. I can create a standard 128 x 128 png on the PC and would like a program to convert it to the requisite Mac .icns file...any ideas? I certainly don't want to upgrade my old version of Photoshop for only this function. So, what are you all using for this sort of thing? I use Iconographer http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html Import your image into the 128 x 128 panel, generate mask, complete icon and that's it. Also, where do I find BootCamp on Leopard? I thought it came pre-installed. In the Utilities folder inside Applications, you can find the BootCamp Assistant. Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.
Chipp Walters wrote: But...Since Photoshop 7 doesn't run on Leopard (did on Tiger), I need to find another alternative to creating .icns files on the Mac. I can create a standard 128 x 128 png on the PC and would like a program to convert it to the requisite Mac .icns file...any ideas? I certainly don't want to upgrade my old version of Photoshop for only this function. So, what are you all using for this sort of thing? I use the IconBuilder plugin: http://iconfactory.com/software/iconbuilder ...but not in Photoshop. I use the only major graphics package designed from the ground up for making UIs: http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/ I'll spare the folks here my annual raving about the radically wonderful workflow shift Fireworks offers, and invite them instead to just give it a try and see if it gels with them as it has for me: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=fireworks :) Also, where do I find BootCamp on Leopard? I thought it came pre-installed. Can't say; never bothered with it. I have four other OSes on tap whenever I need them with Parallels. The notion of requiring a reboot (not to mention the time-sink of reformatting partitions) just to use another OS seems primitive these days. -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.
Chipp, Install the Developer Tools (optional install for OS X) and you will find Icon Composer which will allow you to import (just drag and drop) .png or other formatted graphics files. It will save the .icns file for the Mac. I then used Iconographer on the Mac to make Windows icon file from the icns file. You will still need some sort of graphics program to create the graphics (Windows or Mac) to import into Icon Composer. Photoshop Elements is a lot less expensive that Photoshop and it might be fine for creating graphics. It is pretty easy once you get the right tools. As others have pointed out BootCamp is an optional install. I agree with Richard that Parallels or VMWare is a pretty good option without requiring a reboot. Bill Vlahos On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Well, my MacBook came backed fixed. Turns out they pretty much gave me a new Mac, including a new hard drive and the Leopard OS. Gone is my dual boot config, Parallels and Photoshop, plus all my files. Not too big a deal as it is all backed up. But...Since Photoshop 7 doesn't run on Leopard (did on Tiger), I need to find another alternative to creating .icns files on the Mac. I can create a standard 128 x 128 png on the PC and would like a program to convert it to the requisite Mac .icns file...any ideas? I certainly don't want to upgrade my old version of Photoshop for only this function. So, what are you all using for this sort of thing? Also, where do I find BootCamp on Leopard? I thought it came pre- installed. TIA, Chipp ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Creating .icns files on Mac.
I need to find another alternative to creating .icns files on the Mac. I can create a standard 128 x 128 png on the PC and would like a program to convert it to the requisite Mac .icns file. I use Iconographer http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html Don't want to dis a solution that works for people but apparently Iconographer hasn't been updated in years. See this post from way back: http://www.nabble.com/Make-icons-on-a-Mac--to228853.html#a232690 YMMV. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
