[gentoo-user] Icon Editor???

2009-06-01 Thread meino . cramer

Hi,

 I am trying to create button screens and such stuff for a touch
 enabbles LCD of 160x80 pixels (pure black and white).

 Unfortunately I couldn't convince gimp to set black pixels
 when using Indexed mode...

 And converting an rgb/grayscaled picture to b/w is no option,
 since on a 160x80 screen this would result in broken lines
 and such...

 I there any Icon-Editor which is able to handle text (kiconeditor
 can't do that) and the other more general graphical drawing
 operations?

 Or any other application with which I could acchieve what I want?

 Thank you very much for any help in advance!

 Kind regards,
 Meino Cramer


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Re: [gentoo-user] Icon Editor???

2009-06-01 Thread Masood Ahmed
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:

 Hi,

  I am trying to create button screens and such stuff for a touch
  enabbles LCD of 160x80 pixels (pure black and white).

  Unfortunately I couldn't convince gimp to set black pixels
  when using Indexed mode...

  And converting an rgb/grayscaled picture to b/w is no option,
  since on a 160x80 screen this would result in broken lines
  and such...

  I there any Icon-Editor which is able to handle text (kiconeditor
  can't do that) and the other more general graphical drawing
  operations?

  Or any other application with which I could acchieve what I want?

  Thank you very much for any help in advance!

Try Inkscape

Regards,
Masood Ahmed

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Re: [gentoo-user] Icon Editor???

2009-06-01 Thread meino . cramer
Masood Ahmed masood.ahme...@gmail.com [09-06-01 17:12]:
 meino.cra...@gmx.de writes:
 
  Hi,
 
   I am trying to create button screens and such stuff for a touch
   enabbles LCD of 160x80 pixels (pure black and white).
 
   Unfortunately I couldn't convince gimp to set black pixels
   when using Indexed mode...
 
   And converting an rgb/grayscaled picture to b/w is no option,
   since on a 160x80 screen this would result in broken lines
   and such...
 
   I there any Icon-Editor which is able to handle text (kiconeditor
   can't do that) and the other more general graphical drawing
   operations?
 
   Or any other application with which I could acchieve what I want?
 
   Thank you very much for any help in advance!
 
 Try Inkscape
 
 Regards,
 Masood Ahmed
 

Hi Masood,

thanks for your reply...I tried InkScape but it is not able to reduce
drawing to pure b/w.

Regards,
Meino Cramer

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Re: [gentoo-user] Icon Editor???

2009-06-01 Thread Jacob Todd
What format are the icons? What's 'Indexed mode'? What are 'Button
Screens'?

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:58:52PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
  I am trying to create button screens and such stuff for a touch
  enabbles LCD of 160x80 pixels (pure black and white).
 
  Unfortunately I couldn't convince gimp to set black pixels
  when using Indexed mode...
 
  And converting an rgb/grayscaled picture to b/w is no option,
  since on a 160x80 screen this would result in broken lines
  and such...
 
  I there any Icon-Editor which is able to handle text (kiconeditor
  can't do that) and the other more general graphical drawing
  operations?
 
  Or any other application with which I could acchieve what I want?
 
  Thank you very much for any help in advance!
 
  Kind regards,
  Meino Cramer
 
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Icon Editor???

2009-06-01 Thread meino . cramer
Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com [09-06-01 18:12]:
 What format are the icons? What's 'Indexed mode'? What are 'Button
 Screens'?
 
 On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:58:52PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
  
  Hi,
  
   I am trying to create button screens and such stuff for a touch
   enabbles LCD of 160x80 pixels (pure black and white).
  
   Unfortunately I couldn't convince gimp to set black pixels
   when using Indexed mode...
  
   And converting an rgb/grayscaled picture to b/w is no option,
   since on a 160x80 screen this would result in broken lines
   and such...
  
   I there any Icon-Editor which is able to handle text (kiconeditor
   can't do that) and the other more general graphical drawing
   operations?
  
   Or any other application with which I could acchieve what I want?
  
   Thank you very much for any help in advance!
  
   Kind regards,
   Meino Cramer
  
  
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Format is any format. which supports pure b/w pixels...pbm for
example.
Button screens are screens, on which button are drawn, since on
screen sizeof of a handfull of pixels (160x80) in this case it is
not useful to use windowmanager or XLibs or such to draw on to
the screens. The screens are predefined and put onto the LCD
when necassary.
Indexed mode is a way to store the colors of a picture:
True color: Each picture cell (short pixel) contains the bytes of 
bits defining the absoulte color value for red green and blue (rgb).
Indexed mode: Each picture cell contains an index into an array of
predefined rgb tripel.
Most often, programs which do support only treu color does not
understand to export to pure b/w image formats.
Programs understanding indexed mode do more often pure b/w...

Based on this, what program would you suggest to use, Jake?

Meino Cramer



  
  
 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Icon Editor???

2009-06-01 Thread Mick
On Monday 01 June 2009, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
 Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com [09-06-01 18:12]:
  What format are the icons? What's 'Indexed mode'? What are 'Button
  Screens'?
 
  On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:58:52PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
   Hi,
  
I am trying to create button screens and such stuff for a touch
enabbles LCD of 160x80 pixels (pure black and white).
  
Unfortunately I couldn't convince gimp to set black pixels
when using Indexed mode...
  
And converting an rgb/grayscaled picture to b/w is no option,
since on a 160x80 screen this would result in broken lines
and such...
  
I there any Icon-Editor which is able to handle text (kiconeditor
can't do that) and the other more general graphical drawing
operations?
  
Or any other application with which I could acchieve what I want?
  
Thank you very much for any help in advance!


 Format is any format. which supports pure b/w pixels...pbm for
 example.
 Button screens are screens, on which button are drawn, since on
 screen sizeof of a handfull of pixels (160x80) in this case it is
 not useful to use windowmanager or XLibs or such to draw on to
 the screens. The screens are predefined and put onto the LCD
 when necassary.
 Indexed mode is a way to store the colors of a picture:
 True color: Each picture cell (short pixel) contains the bytes of
 bits defining the absoulte color value for red green and blue (rgb).
 Indexed mode: Each picture cell contains an index into an array of
 predefined rgb tripel.
 Most often, programs which do support only treu color does not
 understand to export to pure b/w image formats.
 Programs understanding indexed mode do more often pure b/w...

 Based on this, what program would you suggest to use, Jake?

Don't know about Jake, but I suggest you use Gimp.

Gimp is ideal for creating icon files (as in ico file type) although I am not 
sure that's what you're talking about. If converting an RGB file to bw is a 
problem, you could try desaturating the image while in RGB and then 
converting it to index mode. It is always better to work on an RGB file and 
then convert it to Index mode when the image is complete.   If the icon image 
is displaying lines when rendered, I suspect the image is distorting due to 
incorrect width and height settings in the conversion code, or the icon image 
has not been created with the correct height and width for the default 
settings of an icon file (ie: 16x16 px or 32x32 px).
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Regards,
Mick


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