[comp.sys.amiga] How to edit big icons.

11TSTARK@GALLUA.BITNET (Timothy Stark) (09/20/88)

Hello Amiga Users:

    Last summer, I downloaded some softwares from BBS, People/Link and
QuantumLink. I am surprised that some icons are gigantic! I tried to
edit icons on icon-editor in my Workbench 1.2 but it messed up!
Does anyone know any software that allow to edit bigger icons?
Also does anyone know any icon protocol docs? Please me know that.
Thank!

    Does anyone know any SUN Raster protocol docs?? I want convert
from SUN Raster files to IFF files.

-- Tim Stark.

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mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) (09/30/88)

> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga: 20-Sep-88 How to edit big icons.*
> *Timothy Stark@GALLUA.BIT (1107)*

>     Last summer, I downloaded some softwares from BBS, People/Link and
> QuantumLink. I am surprised that some icons are gigantic! I tried to
> edit icons on icon-editor in my Workbench 1.2 but it messed up!
> Does anyone know any software that allow to edit bigger icons?

Perhaps you could use one of the utilities on the Fish Disks to convert an Icon
image to an IFF file, edit it with DPaint or another paint program, then
convert it back to an Icon.  One time I manipulated an Icon by displaying it on
the screen and using a PD utility to "snapshot" the screen into an IFF file.
Then I loaded the screen image into DPaint, snipped out the Icon image, and
started playing with it.

It might sound a bit complex, but DPaint is much nicer to use than the Icon
Editor on the 1.2 Extras disk.

                        --M

Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University
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bjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay) (10/05/88)

To the person who asked how to edit big icons:
There is a program (from HERMES) called ICONLAB1 that permits editing and m
manipulating of very large icons.  It should be on most bulletin boards, and 
I know it is in the AmigaArts section of CompuServe, Library 14.

Betty Clay
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