pic2icon 1.1

Short:        Convert pictures to icons (OS 3.5)
Author:       sebauer@t-online.de (Sebastian Bauer)
Uploader:     sebauer t-online de (Sebastian Bauer)
Type:         gfx/conv
Version:      1.1
Requires:     OS 3.5
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
Kurz:         Konvertiert Bilder zu Icons (OS 3.5)

Pic2Icon is a small tool which converts the image data of pictures to
an (shrinked) icon. It provides a simple GUI as well as Shell support.
To load the pictures it uses datatypes.library. But note that currently
only pictures with colors less or equal to 256 are supported!

Usage
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Pic2Icon can be started from Workbench or from Shell.

When started from Workbench you will see very soon an AppIcon 
on your Workbench. Simply drop a picture on to this icon and the
pictures's icon will be changed to the image data of the picture
itself. This will delete the old icon's image!
Doubleclicking on the AppIcon brings up a GUI where you can alter
some settings.

The shell template looks like:
  IMAGE1,DEST,DESTWIDTH/N,DESTHEIGHT/N

IMAGE1
 The picture which should be converted. If omitted an AppIcon
 is created (like starting from WB)

DEST
 The destination (without .info). If omitted IMAGE1 is used.

DESTWIDTH/N
 The width of the resulting icon.

DESTHEIGHT/N
 The height of the resulting icon.

CROP/S
 Crops the picture if it is larger then 256x256

PLANAR/S
 Also creates old planar icon information

If you specify neighter DESTWIDTH nor DESTHEIGHT the image isn't scaled.
Note that the icon.library supports only icons with maximum size of
256x256 pixels.

History
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Version 1.1 (28.12.99)
 - crop option which crops the picture if it is larger than 256x256
   (suggested by Nils Görs)
 - also optionally can create 4 color planar icons
   (suggested by Ben Vost)
 - supports the Snapshot and UnSnapshot menu items from the icon
   menu for the app icon

Version 1.0 (05.12.99)
 - first public release

Future
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- support also 24 bit pictures and remap them.
- specify the number of pens which should be used

Visit my homepage
  http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/
  (german version)

  http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/english.html
  (english version)

Here you can find the latest version of my other programs
SimpleFind3, SimpleHTML, SimplePac and of course Pic2Icon.
Freeciv for Amiga is also available from there.
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