Re: High-res icon

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> --- On Thu, 8/9/12, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: High-res icon
> To: "Michael Goffioul" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Tim Eager" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012, 3:09 PM
> 
> 
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Tim Eager wrote:
> 
>> Anybody know where I can find a higher-resolution (256x256) icon for use on a
>> Win7 desktop?  The included file doesn't upscale well... Thanks
>> 
> 
> 
> For MacOS a 512x512 icon is needed.  I've added a bug report.
> 
>         https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37062
> 
> As Jordi answered in the bug report, can't you generate what you need using 
> the original SVG version?
> 
> Michael.
> 
> I tried converting the svg to a png, but I lost the "O". The result is 
> attached.
>       convert -background none -resize 512x512 "octave-logo.svg" fubar.png
> Is there a reliable approach to convert from svg to png with a transparent 
> background?
> Ben
> 
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> 
> Ben,
> 
> apparently something is wrong with your 'convert'.
> 
> I used the following:
> 
> /mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20120424/ImageMagick-6.7.6-10/binsh/convert 
> -background none -resize 512x512 "octave-logo.svg" fubar.png
> 
> and the result is attached - looks OK to me.
> 
> Regards,
>  Sergei.
> 
> <fubar.png>

Thanks Sergei!

Either there is a problem with my ImageMagick from MacPorts or we are using 
different versions of ImageMagick?

My verision is ...

$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-2 2012-07-01 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP OpenCL   

Ben