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Re: XWin Icon Fidelity
Hi Harold,
Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:
> That wonky/antialiased coloring comes when you upsize an icon from,
> say, 256 colors to true color. You then have to go back in and get
> rid of a lot of the antialiasing and shrink the mask back down.
I think you want some white or gray border around the X, because
otherwise it won't work on a dark background (like my desktop e.g.).
Problem is that the slope of the X is not 45°, so you get a stair
effect. That's probably why eXceed skewed the icon a bit so that its
slopes actually are 45°.
> I just recently (last night) found a free icon editor for windows
> that does the trick.
Can you share the secret? ;-)
so long, benny