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From: upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus)
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Subject: Re: Better Icons
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 20:31:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 20:31:33 1987
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In article <3019@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> hutch@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Jim Hutchison) writes:
> Scanners and DpaintI/II/? can perhaps
>be used through the clipboard, although I must admit to be in the dark as
>to how (sorry, *please* no non-instructive flames).
>
No flame, just a suggestion. I make Icons using Dpaint and a wonderful little
PD utility called Zapicon that was floating around a while ago.
Zapicon makes an icon from a Dpaint brush file .I have
another one (that I haven't used yet) that is supposed to join 2 icons
together into a selected/deselected pair. One warning on Zapicon.
I am told (by a source who is sometimes right on, and sometimes way off,
so take this with a grain of salt) that when brushes get over a certain size,
Dpaint shifts to run-length encoding. Zapicon doesn't know what to do with
that.

Jeff Kesselman
uhura!captain@puff.cs.wisc.edu