On 20 Nov 2008, at 16:59, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> Can we use something other than an icns file? Not certain, but I'd guess not given that icns is the system expectation. But the icns format does have certain advantages in that it contains several versions of the icon varying in bit depth and size and alpha channel masks to allow for transparency. > For example, can we use a PDF? If so, it would be easy to automate the > generation (and squeeze down the file size). There is a command line tool for converting tiffs 2 icns called tiff2icns. > Nico Weber wrote: >> >> On Nov 20, 2:17 pm, dacresni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I seriously suggest just altering the text layer of the icon and >>> putting ALL of them in the app, they really aren't that big because >>> they're either pdf or png. >> >> Actually, they are usually icns (at least for the apps I just >> checked: >> TextEdit and Preview), and icns store pixel data. A 128x128 icns >> (used >> by TextEdit) weighs in at 48 kb (which means 10 of them are half a >> megabyte), a 512x512 icns weighs in at about 164kb (Preview document >> icons). Nico, have you used icns browser to examine those icon files. You'll find that they contain more than just a 512^2 icon or smaller. Dave -- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -- C. A. R. "Tony" Hoare --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
