Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 684
Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 684
- Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 7, Issue 684
- From: Jim McGowan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:54:50 +0800
On 27 Jun 2010, at 3:19, Richard Somers wrote:
> With an NSButton the pdf file works great and looks great when scaling set to none. When the pdf file is used as the image for the toolbar item, it gets asymmetrically stretched and looks horrible. Thus the reason for converting the pdf to an icns file.
>
The PDF will be getting asymmetrically stretched as it is not square, the toolbar stretches any non-square images to fit.
I would highly recommend Opacity for creating toolbar images, as well as other application artwork. You create vector drawings, just like with Inkscape, and it can generate output as multi-resolution bitmaps, vector (PDF or SVG), icon formats, or, best of all, source code in Quartz, Cocoa or Core Animation. It has a bunch of presets starting points for things like toolbar icons, buttons, etc. I too was struggling to create decent graphics for this kind of thing, especially getting them resolution-independent, and after a day with Opacity I was hooked.
Jim
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