dpalermo@aludra.usc.edu (Dan Palermo) (04/23/91)
Hello, I am looking for a public domain or commercial icon editor for windows. What we are really interested in is something that can take a scanned image (TIFF) and squash it into the 32x32 bitmap of the icon, but a icon editor which can load and edit icon sized bitmaps would also be good. Any pointers or suggestions as to where we might find such a program would be appreciated. Thanks, Dan Palermo dpalermo@usc.edu
aragorn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Steve J White) (04/24/91)
In article <16800@chaph.usc.edu> dpalermo@aludra.usc.edu (Dan Palermo) writes: > I am looking for a public domain or commercial icon editor for windows. >What we are really interested in is something that can take a scanned >image (TIFF) and squash it into the 32x32 bitmap of the icon, but a >icon editor which can load and edit icon sized bitmaps would also be good. >Any pointers or suggestions as to where we might find such a program would >be appreciated. > You should look around the ftp site cica.cica.indiana.edu. They have a good selection of icon related applications. Look in the directory /pub/pc/win3/util. There should be a text file there you can down-load and this will give you a list of what apps do what. If you need help with ftp'ing, let me know via e-mail. - steve -- "Laugh and the world laughs with you... | All disclaimers apply... snore and you sleep alone." | except my own, of course. - anonymous fortune cookie thingy | *** Steve J. White *** <<< aragorn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu >>>
itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) (04/25/91)
dpalermo@aludra.usc.edu (Dan Palermo) writes: > I am looking for a public domain or commercial icon editor for windows. >What we are really interested in is something that can take a scanned >image (TIFF) and squash it into the 32x32 bitmap of the icon, but a >icon editor which can load and edit icon sized bitmaps would also be good. >Any pointers or suggestions as to where we might find such a program would >be appreciated. I've found that there's a suite of tools that does this job admirably. First is WinGIF, which lets you view and manipulate images in GIF, TIFF, PCX, and RLE format. Very simple but VERY powerful. You can save the images into files OR clip them into the clipboard. And then there's IconTamer... It lets you look at and control icon files. It will load in an image from the Clipboard (notice the hook!) that were created or manipulated with ANYthing. So you can import a TIFF, clip it, modify it with Paint or any other paintbrush/graphics type program, and then make it into an icon with IconTamer (I think there are others like IconTamer, but I have had good results with it). I also second the recommendation that you grab the INDEX file from cica.cica.indiana.edu in directory /pub/pc/win3. There's QUITE a nice collection there. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ : Steven List @ Transact Software, Inc. :^>~ : : Chairman, Unify User Group of Northern California : : itkin@Transact.COM :