Hi, all...
Hey, we talked about this a year ago, but nothing happened. The inkscapexxxx.ico file that we use for the Inkscape "Application" icon (resource #300), is a fix of the crappy old .ico that I made myself when we first started working on a 'standard' Windows build. I am in no way an artist, and the thing looks utilitarian and boring. So I ask the question again: is there some guy who can make a new icon which is DIB-like (various sizes) and yet pretty at the same time? Of course there are lots of people who can make nice 48x48 or 32x32 images, but we need a Windows guy who knows and can cope with the constraints of a .ico (limited colors, etc)
bob
Bob Jamison wrote:
Hi, all...
Hey, we talked about this a year ago, but nothing happened. The inkscapexxxx.ico file that we use for the Inkscape "Application" icon (resource #300), is a fix of the crappy old .ico that I made myself when we first started working on a 'standard' Windows build. I am in no way an artist, and the thing looks utilitarian and boring. So I ask the question again: is there some guy who can make a new icon which is DIB-like (various sizes) and yet pretty at the same time? Of course there are lots of people who can make nice 48x48 or 32x32 images, but we need a Windows guy who knows and can cope with the constraints of a .ico (limited colors, etc)
I have extremely little experience with Windows icons but can witness one thing: GIMP on Linux is a very capable tool for this job, it can deal fine with .ico files (multiple sizes and palettes inside one single file)
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Nicu Buculei wrote:
I have extremely little experience with Windows icons but can witness one thing: GIMP on Linux is a very capable tool for this job, it can deal fine with .ico files (multiple sizes and palettes inside one single file)
The only tool I trust for ICO files with multiple icons and the best possible compatibility is the editor built into Microsoft Visual Studio.
Anything else increases the risk of having to deal with unusual quirks.
Perhaps support for ICO files in the GNU Image Manipulation Program has improved but if someone does have Visual Studio I'd encourage the to use it in this case.
- Alan
On Nov 8, 2005, at 2:30 AM, Bob Jamison wrote:
So I ask the question again: is there some guy who can make a new icon which is DIB-like (various sizes)
Actually, that's not really "DIB-like", but rather is just .ico- like. "DIB" is usually what a generic .BMP file is.
I can check into things a little. Though The GIMP has some .ico support, it used to have severe limitations when it came to mutiple images trying to have different bitdepths, as it want's them all as layers of a single image. But if that's still the case, I can probably use a few other things to chain parts together.
Bob Jamison schrieb:
Hi, all...
Hey, we talked about this a year ago, but nothing happened.
...
and yet pretty at the same time? Of course there are lots of people who can make nice 48x48 or 32x32 images, but we need a Windows guy who knows and can cope with the constraints of a .ico (limited colors, etc)
bob
I tried to scale down nicely inkscape.logo.svg with gimp but when I came to 32x32 then the outcome was worst than the current logo (antialiasing) 1. we need just the collection of this different sizes 16, 24, 48, 32 combined with 8bpp and 24bpp 2. then we can however package those pictures to the applications 3. wikipedia lists a couple icon-editors
need help with 1.)
Adib Taraben.
On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Adib Taraben wrote:
I tried to scale down nicely inkscape.logo.svg with gimp but when I came to 32x32 then the outcome was worst than the current logo (antialiasing)
- we need just the collection of this different sizes 16, 24, 48,
32 combined with 8bpp and 24bpp 2. then we can however package those pictures to the applications 3. wikipedia lists a couple icon-editors
need help with 1.)
multiImage in SVG 1.2 can help with that.
:-)
Actually... you're hitting the main issue artists have with icons. For smaller sizes, pixel-level tweaking is usually needed.
You don't really need anyone on a given platform or tool, but you do need people good at smaller sizes. Then we need to list up all the needed versions. The 8bpp are mainly outdated, but 4bpp and 1bpp are often good to have.
Also... while we are at it, we probably first should list all variations for different platforms that we'll need. With things like Mac OS X, Windows 2K, Windows XP, Windows Vista, etc. there is quite a range.
Adib Taraben wrote:
I tried to scale down nicely inkscape.logo.svg with gimp but when I came to 32x32 then the outcome was worst than the current logo (antialiasing)
- we need just the collection of this different sizes 16, 24, 48, 32
combined with 8bpp and 24bpp
You may also want to generate some icons with with an alpha channel for newer versions of Windows. Personally I usually don't even bother with 24bpp as they often don't look much better than 8bpp icons. So in that case you'd have 8bpp icons for older versions of Windows (and some other situations, like when using Remote Desktop Connection) and 24bpp+alpha for newer versions of Windows.
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Nicu Buculei