Re: Transparent Knickers
Re: Transparent Knickers
- Subject: Re: Transparent Knickers
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:45:57 +0200
John,
OC> >IconBuilder of NeXTStep, crippled in Mac OS X Server, and trashed
OC> >completely
OC> >in OS X. So far as I know, you need a 3rd party software for it now.
OC> >Don't ask me why.
>
>>>>> John Stringham (JS) wrote at Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:51:18 -0700:
JS> It would seem to me that an application lurking in the Developer folder
JS> is called "IconComposer." Is this just coincidence or is this the
JS> aforementioned IconBuilder app?
Alas, it is not. The IconBuilder was, despite its name, a general,
unlimited, quite nice TIFF editor. Not extremely featured, but sufficient --
it supported more or less all important TIFF features, including the alpha
channel and the different representations.
In the Mac OS X Server release its features stayed more or less unchanged,
but the edited TIFF size was restricted to ridiculous 64x64 pixels.
The IconComposer, OTOH, is just an uneeded thing which can take standard
images and combine them into the proprietary and utterly nonsensical ICNS
format.
(*) I might be wrong, of course: tell me of one sole feature ICNS supports
and TIFF does not! I did not find any yet, but that might be my own mistake.
TIFF can contain more different sizes easily (and much more flexibly, since a
particular TIFF can, should its maker want to, contain any number of sizes,
not just a predefined list); its alpha is much more flexible and convenient
than the ICNS masks. Have I missed anything?
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