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- From: friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Mac Icons?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:57:48 GMT
- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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- References: <1993Jan5.051425.11093@wam.umd.edu>
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- Al Dhir (adhir@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
- > >In short, unless you've a lot of icons to do, you're probably better
- > >off sitting in front of the mac with ResEdit (the resource editor) and
- > >a piece of graph paper and just copy the bitmap that way. I did the
- > >system 7 trash and Mac icons like this.
- >
- > Sheesh!! Are you kidding? Why didn't you just take a snapshot of the
- > Mac screen with the command-S (or something similar) keystroke and
-
- Command-Shift-3 (not F3 for those with Mac extended keyboards, the
- 3 key).
-
- > take the snapshot file home to your OS/2 machine for processing?? I did
- > this with a TON of Mac AND NeXT icons and it worked great. Just take what-
- > ever format picture you end up with (TIFF on NeXT and PICT on Mac) and
- > convert/view it - either using utils easily available on the Mac or using
- > utils on the PC (Hijaak). Then CUT it and PASTE it into the icon editor.
- > Just the thought of sitting there with graph paper... oh god!
-
- Kind of like cutting firewood with a butter knife isn't it?! :)
-
- I thought about suggesting this when the original article was posted
- by assumed that 10 other people would have as well. I'm surprised it
- took this long. Just about ANY Macintosh paint program (even HyperCard!)
- can read those PICT files. We've got SuperPaint and Canvas 3.0 at work
- and between the two of them they can save to just about any format you
- want.
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- Darryl Friesen | Department of Computing Services
- friesenda@sask.usask.ca | University of Saskatchewan
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