On 27 Jun 2010, at 3:19, Richard Somers wrote: > With an NSButton the pdf file works great and looks great when scaling set to > none. When the pdf file is used as the image for the toolbar item, it gets > asymmetrically stretched and looks horrible. Thus the reason for converting > the pdf to an icns file. >
The PDF will be getting asymmetrically stretched as it is not square, the toolbar stretches any non-square images to fit. I would highly recommend Opacity for creating toolbar images, as well as other application artwork. You create vector drawings, just like with Inkscape, and it can generate output as multi-resolution bitmaps, vector (PDF or SVG), icon formats, or, best of all, source code in Quartz, Cocoa or Core Animation. It has a bunch of presets starting points for things like toolbar icons, buttons, etc. I too was struggling to create decent graphics for this kind of thing, especially getting them resolution-independent, and after a day with Opacity I was hooked. Jim
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