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From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to edit big icons.
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Date: 29 Sep 88 19:59:45 GMT
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> *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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