Icon Maker for Puppy? [SOLVED]

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Sky Aisling
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Icon Maker for Puppy? [SOLVED]

#1 Post by Sky Aisling »

Hello,

Does anyone have a suggestion for an icon maker app?
And, if so, where do I go to download it?

I have found Gnome-iconedit and Kiconedit but do they work on Puppy?

I would like to make icons from my own pictures.

Thank You,

Sky
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#2 Post by rcrsn51 »

Do you mean icons for desktop shortcuts? They can just be 48x48 PNG files. You can make them with mtpaint.

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#3 Post by Sky Aisling »

I want to make an avatar for myself.

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#4 Post by Sky Aisling »

How do I do that in McPaint?
I have an image that is 47 k in size.

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#5 Post by rcrsn51 »

For an avatar, the maximum size is 80x80. Use mtpaint to crop or shrink your image file.

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#6 Post by 8-bit »

I have not had much exposure to MacPaint, but when I made an avatar for use on the forum, I just took a picture I liked, loaded it up in Paint, resized it and saved it as a png file type.
I imagine you could also save it as a jpg file.

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#7 Post by Sky Aisling »

Got it! Thank You.

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#8 Post by Sky Aisling »

I'm still stuck with left-over ways from You-Know-Whos OS. Do Icons need to have a special file type such as .icon? Does a .jpg or .png work as an icon file in Linux? Where a small picture, i.e., 'icon' is needed, can I put in a tiny .jpg or .png or .gif?

Sorry, it takes a long time to rehab from YKW's OS.

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#9 Post by Sky Aisling »

Where do I find instructions on special characters available to use as text in Mcpaint? Specifically, 'registered trademark' and 'copyright'. They are through the keyboard, I think.

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#10 Post by Sky Aisling »

Got it! Googled 'special keyboard characters Linux'
Thanks and goodnight :)

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