Image question

[Lynn Peterson]

I'm way late on responding to this, but in my experience, there is no  
need to choose the Windows *.ico files. Do your "get info" on  
the .icns file you want, then just choose "New from clipboard" from  
Preview's File menu (or Command-N). Then go ahead with rest of what  
Klaus suggested as to how to save the file (PNG/Alpha) and import  
into Rev. Still tedious... maybe  a good job for AppleScript if it  
hasn't been done already .

Happy Holidays ~
Lynn P.
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On Dec 7, 2006, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
>> Hi all, I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to handling images,
>> icons and so-on.
>>
>> I've downloaded some good freeware icons (http://www.fasticon.com/
>> downloads.html)  for an app I'm making, and they're in the form of
>> folder icons ie. a bunch of empty folders which show their icons in
>> the finder (I'm on OS X).
>>
>> If I "get info" and copy the icon from the the finder  info window
>> and then paste onto my stack using "paste image", I get an
>> apparently empty image. If I use iconoghrapher to open the icon,
>> and then copy it, and "import image as control" in Rev, I get the
>> image, but it's background rectangle is white in some cases, or
>> half the image is invisible in others. This is to do with masks and
>> alpha data and stuff which I don't currently understand, I guess.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest the easiest way to get these icons into my stack
>> such that they display properly?
>
> well, the trick here is to download the WINDOWS icon pack :-)
> That will contain a bunch of "*.ico" files but "Preview" can open  
> them!
>
> The mac version contains "Adobe Photoshop Pict resource" files, as
> told by the "Info" window,
> but Photoshop cannot open them!
>
> Since there are several images in one file, open the drawer in
> "Preview" and click the
> expand arrow fo the image on top of the drawer.
>
> Select the icon you want to use by clicking/selecting it and choose
> "Save as..." from the file menu.
> Choose "PNG" as fileformat and check (if not already checked) "Alpha".
>
> NOW you can import the image into Rev without problems!
> A BIT tedious, but does work :-)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Mark
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major