[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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