Introduction Folder Icon
X is an award-winning Mac OS X-native application providing a
simple way to create a customized folder and document icons by
placing another icon on a standard plain icon. It fully supports "drag & drop" feature
and can load any icons from any files, ".icns" documents
and folders. All generated icons are 32-bit Mac OS X-compatible
icons which can be viewed on both Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X.
This software now supports 9 languages (see
below)  Folder Icon
X can also perform:
- Icons to
pictures
- Pictures
to icons : support translucent 8-bit mask : view
sample
- Icons to
new icons : both folder icons and document icons
- Icon organizer
- and more.
The current
version is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
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Features Folder Icon X
has several useful features, such as:

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- Create a folder
icon with a logo on it.
- Create customized
icons for generic disk and folder icons (view
sample).
- Icon outputs
have size of 128x128 pixels and 32 bits color depth, i.e. 16
millions color.
- Icons can
be viewed on Mac OS 7 through Mac OS X (32-bit icons require
Mac OS 8.5 or higher).
- Can import
pictures, and save them as icons or ".icns" documents
(view
sample).
- Can import
pictures to be a logo icon, a small icon on a plain icon (pict-to-icon).
- Can export
icons as pictures (icon-to-pict).
- Support Apple's
8 bits mask (DeepMask), i.e. the icons have different levels
of transparency.
- Support drag & drop,
live resize and transparency change.
- Unlimited
customizable templates.
- Can save icons
as folders and ".icns" documents.
- Can create
icons with dropping variant or open-drop icon (view
sample).
- Can import
icons from the Finder by using Finder's contextual menus, called
Folder IconX.plugin
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Adding
a dropping variant or open-drop icon The generic
folder icon usually has two statuses, i.e. closing status and
opening status. The icon of the closing status is the blue folder
icon which you see on the desktop. The opening status will be
displayed when users dragging files or folders on that folder
icon   Folder Icon
X provides an easy way to add the dropping variant, i.e. icon
of the opening status, to the folder icon. Just create your folder
icon on the main window as usual, and then select your dropping
variant from the Add Dropping Variant command of the Icon menu.
Download an example here or
view the demonstrating
movie. Transformation
of the logo icon
To freely
transform or distort the shape of the logo icon, users can
use the Set Customized Dimension command of the Distortion
submenu of the Edit menu. This command will display a red
transforming frame with four gray active corners. Dragging
the corners of the frame will distort the shape of the icon.
For more convenience, users can also activate the transforming
frame by double-clicking on the logo icon. The transforming
configuration can be saved for future use by the Save Current
Setting command.
     Users can also
transform or distort the logo icon to match the shape of generic
folder or disk icons. Please view demonstration and download
a sample here.
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Manually
Crop
Manually Crop
command is located on the Edit menu. It allows users to crop
the logo icon manually.
 
When the command
is activated, the greenish cropping frame will be shown. Dragging
the active corners of the cropping frame will change size of
the frame. To finalize the command, hit Enter or Return key,
or double-click on the framed area.
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Organize
your icons with features of Template menu
Template menu
will display the items which are placed in the template folder.
The default template folder is a folder named "Template" located
in the same folder as Folder Icon X application. Users can put
any files, folders or aliases in this template folder in order
that users can select their icons from the Template menu. This
feature will help users to categorize, organize, and group icons.
On the Template menu, all icons in the template folder will be
listed in hierarchical manner.
Moreover, the
Template menu can also be listed in the contextual menus, either
those of Folder Icon X itself or the Finder. Importantly, if
the items are ".icns" documents (standard Mac OS X
icon document), the Template menu will display the contents of ".icns" data.

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Other
highlights of the Template menu
- Any folders
inside the template folder will be displayed as categories
in hierarchical manner.
- Hold down
the Command key while select an item from the menu will open
that item in Finder.
- If Caps
Lock is on, the mask of the selected template icon will be
applied to the original icon.

Contextual
Menu : Folder Icon X.plugin
"Folder
Icon X.plugin" is a Mac OS X-compatible contextual
menu module, which helps users to manage icons of files and
folder form Finder. "Folder Icon X.plugin" allows users
to perform the following tasks :

- Add icons
of any desktop items to the main canvas of Folder Icon X.
- Save icons
of any desktop items as "icns" documents.
- Copy icons
of selected items to the Clipboards.
- Paste copied
icons to the selected items on the desktop.
- Remove custom
icons from selected files and folders
- Preview
selected icons, including contents of ".icns" files,on
a floating window.
- Create a
folder icon using Make Folder Icons command
- Compatible
with Mac OS X 10.2.1 and later, including Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.
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Make
Folder Icons command
The Make Folder Icons command allows users to create folder icons form the
contextual menu. The generated folder icon is the combination of a template
folder icon and a logo icon. The template folder icon can be customized
via the Startup pane of the Preferences window of the Folder Icon X application.
The logo icon is the contextual menu-selected item. The customized position
of the logo icon is the last position on the Folder Icon X's main window.
Make & Paste
To Parent command
The operation of Make & Paste command resembles that of the Make Folder
Icons command. Once the engine make the icon, it will automatically paste that
icon to the parent folder of the selected item.
Preview
Icon Document command

The Preview
Icon Document command is located on the root menu of the Folder
Icon X contextual menu. It has an ability to display the icons
of selected items on a floating window. If ".icns" icon
documents are selected, the engine will display the contents
of those ".icns" documents.
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Requirement
- Mac OS X
10.3 or later.
- QuickTime
6.4 or later
Language
support
If you want
to translate Folder Icon X, please contact me at: naratt@naratt.com Users can change
the application language although that language is not installed
on the current system. To change language, open the Info
window of Folder Icon X. Then select the "Languages" popup
menu. Check the language which you want to set and uncheck the
languages which you do not want. If you check more than one language,
the used language is the one that has been set in the system
preference. This method does not work if Folder Icon X is on
a locked volume.
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Photoshop
support
- If you need
to create a Mac OS X-compatible icon with Adobe Photoshop,
please try Icon Exporter Plug-in.
- Icon Exporter
Plug-in is a simple exporting plug-in allowing Photoshop users
to export composite RGB layer data as a 32-bit Mac OS X icon
(128 x 128 pixels). The plug-in can also transfer alpha channels
to be a 8-bit Deep Mask with different levels of transparency.
- Icon Exporter
Plug-in works with Photoshop 5 and 6. It also works with Classic
version of Photoshop 7, but not Photoshop 7 or CS Mac
OS X version.
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Registration
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Folder
Icon X is a shareware.
- Single user
license US$ 15.00
- Site license
US$ 150.00
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Icon
Exporter Plug-in is a shareware.
- Single user
license US$ 10.00
- Site license
US$ 30.00
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The
registration code will be sent via e-mail. Please provide a valid
e-mail address. |
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Purchase
online at: http://store.eSellerate.net/naratt/store |
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Download
Folder
Icon X 3.0.2 (2.5 MB)
Icon
Exporter Plug-in 1.8 OS 9 (200K)
Danish
documents for Folder Icon X 3.0 (630K)
Check an update
with your Symbian mobile phone (e.g. Nokia 6600) at: http://www.naratt.com/mobile/ If you have
problems about Folder Icon X, please e-mail me at: naratt@naratt.com
Updated:
August 5, 2006
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