Mac icon specifications

[Chris Sheffield]

Thanks, Marc. Good to see your presence on this list. :-) I will have  
our artist make sure he's using the latest version and try again. That  
could very well have been the problem, seeing as how the artwork he  
sent me seemed just fine.


On Aug 22, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Marc EMILE - Axialis wrote:

> Chris:
>
> My name is Marc EMILE from Axialis Software, author of IconWorkshop.
> May I ask you what version of IconWorkshop you used to generate the
> ICNS file? FYI, in the latest version 6.31 we've fixed an issue in
> 256x256 and 512x512 formats.
>
> If you used an older version, could you update to 6.31 and try to  
> load/
> save your icon? Does it fix the issue?
>
> Regards,
> Marc - Axialis Team
> www.axialis.com
>
>
>
> On Aug 21, 5:16 pm, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffi... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just to let everyone know, I got the artwork from the artist, plugged
>> the images into Icon Composer, and all is well. :-) Thanks for all  
>> the
>> suggestions.
>>
>> On Aug 20, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> This is a limitation in Icon Composer, which only offers a few  
>>>> basic
>>>> sizes. 128 pixels is the largest it allows.
>>
>>> Actually, the latest Icon Composer under Leopard has 512, 256, 128,
>>> 32, and
>>> 16 pixel sizes.
>>
>>> Chris, if you still have the problem after you check on the artwork,
>>> the
>>> other thing you can do is to check the 'info.plist' file in the
>>> bundle -
>>> this is where the OS connects the app to the icon. Look for:
>>
>>>    <key>CFBundleTypeIconFile</key>
>>
>>> This should have a <string> after it that is the icon file that will
>>> be used
>>> for the app -  make sure this is the same name as the actual icon
>>> file in
>>> the Resources folder.
>>
>>> Just my 2 cents...
>>
>>> Ken Ray
>>> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
>>> Email: k... at sonsothunder.com
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