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- Short: New icons for EMPLANT
- Author: enigma@dorsai.dorsai.org (Victor A. Buttaro)
- Uploader: enigma@dorsai.dorsai.org (Victor A. Buttaro)
- Type: misc/emu
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- Version: 1.0
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- A lot of people have complained about the ugliness of the icons that come
- with the Emplant; some people have actually tried to do something about
- it. Well today I join that group.
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- Standard Icons:
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- Enclosed you will find 4 color replacements for most of the icons that came
- with the EMPLANT. (I'll be working on the rest soon). Using only 4 colors
- (the standard Workbench 2.0+ colors); they'll look good on everybody's
- Workbench. Sorry, no "MagicWorkbench" icons here. The icons are all
- duel image
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- Using them is simple enough; though I would recommend you load then into
- "IconEdit" and then "save as" out to your original icons so as to not lose
- any "tooltypes" you may have set. MAKE A NOTE OF THE "TOOLTYPES"
- SO YOU CAN VERIFY THAT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN MODIFIED. Having said that
- these icons don't appear to have any "tooltypes" associated with
- them.
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- Also, they'll look best on a 1x1 screen (or the closet thing).They'll look
- slightly elongated an any screen that deviates greatly from 1x1
- (like High-reas 600x200) Sorry, but they were designed with my Workbench
- screen in mind.
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- "NewIcons":
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- I have included 2 IFF files of all the icons in beautiful full color (At least
- I think they look beautiful), for those that use "NewIcons". The two files are
- as follows:
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- 1. NewEMP_1: A standard high-res-lace IFF file.
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- 2. NewEMP_2: A 1x1, 640x480 Productivity IFF file.
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- "NewIcons" comes with a utility called "InjectBrush" that will allow you to
- convert a brush to a "NewIcon" icon. Two things to consider though:
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- 1. The icons do use the standard "NewIcons" palette; though I may have
- changed a color or two.
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- 2. The icons are bigger that the 36x40 recommended in the "NewIcons" docs.
- Though I read in another program that "NewIcons" allows icons up to 96x96 in
- size (Please don't quote me on that figure).
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- Each "NewIcons" brush comes in pairs and matches the original 4 color icons.
- First install the standard 4 color icons and then load the appropriate IFF
- file into a paint program. You will notice that each image pair is named; and
- each image is surrounded by a ugly Magenta(?) border. Pick up everything
- INSIDE that border as a brush; and save them out as pairs. Name them
- accordingly to make it easier for yourself when you go and use "InjectBrush"
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- Read the documentation for "InjectBrush" for how to proceed from here. If
- "InjectBrush" complains about the size or the palette; try the FORCE option
- for "InjectBrush" as mentioned in the documentation.
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- Hopefully this will all work, if so then do like the shampoo bottle says;
- "repeat". If it doesn't; well then I guess you'll have to just admire the
- pictures and dream of what could have been. :)
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- Notice: I'd like to know whether it worked or didn't. So if you bother to try
- to install the "NewIcons" version; please let me know how it went.
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- IN CONCLUSION
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- If you are reading this now, then I can safety assume that you've had a
- chance to look at the icons. Well folks; I need feed-back. Whether you love
- them, or hated them; I want to know what you think. Do you have a question?
- E-mail me. Do you have a problem? Do the same. You'll find my e-mail
- address not far from this sentence. Do you have some icons you want done?
- Well just ask; I don't bite.
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- AUTHOR
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- The graphics and the icons were created by
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- Victor A. Buttaro
- 61-4th Place
- Brooklyn, New York, 11231
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- E-Mail: enigma@dorsai.dorsai.org
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- The poor excuse for documentation was written by:
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- The same person. :)
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- Acknowledgements
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- Jim Drew, for making the EMPLANT and designing such crappy icons I
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- guess. :)
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- DISTRIBUTION
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- This software is FreeWare. It is freely distributable as long as the archive
- remains intact, and only a nominal fee is charged for its distribution.
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- This software is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either
- expressed or implied. By using it, you agree to accept the entire risk as to
- the quality and performance of the program.
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 6608 1178 82.1% 15-Mar-95 19:17:12 ConverterII.info
- 1722 1030 40.1% 15-Mar-95 19:17:12 Dump256KDIPS.info
- 1722 921 46.5% 15-Mar-95 19:17:12 Dump256KSIMM.info
- 4150 2081 49.8% 15-Mar-95 19:26:32 EMP-IconGfx_1.readme
- 469 236 49.6% 15-Mar-95 19:16:34 EMP-IconGfx_1.readme.info
- 1722 1134 34.1% 15-Mar-95 19:17:12 HardFileSetup.info
- 1722 1137 33.9% 15-Mar-95 19:17:12 InitRetina.info
- 1722 1151 33.1% 15-Mar-95 19:17:14 MAC_HDSetup.info
- 35604 19222 46.0% 15-Mar-95 19:24:28 NewEMP_1
- 474 242 48.9% 15-Mar-95 19:18:30 NewEMP_1.info
- 41560 18920 54.4% 15-Mar-95 19:16:42 NewEMP_2
- 474 242 48.9% 15-Mar-95 19:18:40 NewEMP_2.info
- 1722 1403 18.5% 15-Mar-95 19:17:14 VBRMover.info
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