Because of IP laws and such, I had to create an icon for the attachment viewer project so tonight I decided to figure out how I will do this. I am no artist by far but I do have some pretty easy to use and free tools at my disposal. I figured the best way is to use some kind of presentation editor like Symphony, then use GIMP to actually size and save the image as a jpeg. The paste into GIMP was not very good so I basically scaled it down and took a screen shot to get a good icon sized image. In the end, this was pretty easy but I would be interested in hearing how some of you artists do this stuff.
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In the end the icon looks pretty good in the Notes client – I am no Picasso so this will have to do! Check out a screen shot of the new view icon in the upper left of the viewer:
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hej, great work. Just a question which default font type is specified for plugins in the notes.css?
to me it looks like the text ‘File: picture.jpg’ is in a different font-type?
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/lotus/ueguidelines.pdf
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Hi Patrick, this is really just a web browser and currently there is no use of CSS or any special font types.
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Hi Bob,
for anything logo-related i can highly recommend you the opensource software Inkscape, i created my blog logo this way. If you need the template file to create notes-like icons just drop me a message.
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Ah cool, I have played with that in the past. Thanks.
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