Mac icon specifications

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

The 512^2 icons are specific to Leopard and Snow. It is indeed  
possible that other versions of OSX can't cope with this, but Leopard  
and Snow shouldn't have any problems with this.

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Mark Schonewille

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On 20 aug 2008, at 18:42, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
> This is a limitation in Icon Composer, which only offers a few basic  
> sizes. 128 pixels is the largest it allows. The Finder will scale  
> the icon if necessary, but 128 is the largest size that Icon  
> Composer will save in the icns file. It's limitations have never had  
> any ill effects in my icon files though, the Finder works fine with  
> 128 px.
>
> Now that I think about it, I wonder if having huge icon sizes in the  
> icns file is what's messing up everything. I've never created a Mac  
> icon with a stored image larger than 128. Maybe just the existence  
> of extra images gives the Finder a heart attack?