[AG-DEV] Re: icons

Thomas D. Uram turam at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Feb 21 10:22:39 CST 2006


Doug:

Do you have a better source image for the AG icon?  The current
AG icon looks pretty bad in the Mac Finder...

Tom


On 8/21/04 3:36 AM, Douglas Kosovic wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
>> There is an ag-ellipse.png icon in packaging/linux contributed by Doug
>> Kosovic (Doug, did you make that icon or convert it from somewhere 
>> else?).
>> It's the icon that some of the linux packages (fedora at least) are 
>> using.
> 
> I did that one with MS Word's WordArt package, it was fairly trivial to 
> do. But I had to then edit it with a paint program to extend the tail of 
> the right edge of the italic 'A' character. I was never really satisfied 
> with it because the right edge wasn't straight.
> 
> But, you can see various AG icons I did with Adobe Illustrator here:
>  http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~douglask/agicons/
> 
> It's just a bit of variation of using/not using drop-shadows, gradient 
> fills and 3-D perspective.
> 
> I didn't crop the transparent background PNG files to a particular size, 
> so it's whatever Adobe Illustrator exported them as.
> 
> When I received CVS access, I was going to replace the ag-ellipse.png 
> file I did with WordArt with AG-ellipse4.png.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Doug
> 
> 




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