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From: susser@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Josh Susser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Icon generation sw
Message-ID: <546@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 19:02:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: parcvax.546
Posted: Wed Sep 30 19:02:03 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 04:09:02 EDT
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Reply-To: susser.pasa@xerox.com.UUCP (Josh Susser)
Organization: Xerox Special Information Systems, Pasadena, CA
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Keywords: icon resedit
Summary: Use ResEdit

In article <1310@bgsuvax.UUCP> instone@bgsuvax.UUCP (Keith Instone) writes:
>
>Thanks to everyone for their kind suggestions about 'hacking' together
>icon resources.  Using DAs (such as Icon Maker or McSink) and your favorite
>graphics program seems to work pretty well, in fact.  Why should anyone 
>want more?  Well, I do.
>I thought one of these easily found Mac progammers ( :-} ) would have
>already come up with a simple little application which could do it all.
>Just take a 32 by 32 Fat Bits type grid and make a resource out of it.
>But, alas, I see that nothing exists yet.  
>

After you have made your 32x32 bitmap in your favorite paint program, lasso
or frame it and then copy it to the clipboard or scrapbook.  Then run ResEdit,
make a new ICN#, open it and paste the bitmap.  Now all you have to do is
fix the mask and you're done.

--Josh Susser
  Xerox Special Information Systems, Pasadena, CA
  Susser.pasa@Xerox.com


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