Previous versions of icon editors don"t support Windows 7/8 icons? Experts from IconUtils have found new guidelines for solving this problem IconUtils today announces the unveiling of Icon Software 5.41, the newest version of its award winning icon design software for the Windows OS. This version, aside from rendering its assistance in creating, editing icon images and managing icon files and libraries, provides great opportunities for working with Windows 7 icons. If you couldn"t work with Windows 7 icons previously, now with the new version of icon software it is going to be no trouble at all. From now onwards you will be able to handle Windows 7 icons with ease. In order to make Windows 7icons compatible with Windows XP you can save them without any compression. Windows 7 icons introduce a new style of iconography that brings a higher level of detail and sophistication to Windows imagery. First, the style of Windows Aero-style icons is more realistic than illustrative, but not quite photorealistic. The icons are symbolic images - they should look better than photorealistic. Second, icons have a maximum size of 256 x 256, making them suitable for high-DPI displays. These high-resolution icons allow for high visual quality in list views with large icons. Finally, wherever practical, fixed document icons are replaced by thumbnails of the content, making documents easier to identify and find. Thus, Icon Software is a beeline to refining the visuals of your program and making it more communicative for users. Icon Software 5.41 benefits at a glance: - Aero-style icons support; - PNG format to compress high-resolution images without losses; - Saving Windows 7 icons without compression provides compatibility with XP; - Find and extract, edit, import and export icons and manage icon libraries; - Lot"s of delicate power instruments for creating icons; - Import and export ICO, CUR, BMP, JPG, PNG, PSD, etc. images; - Multilanguage support. Pricing and Availability Icon Software 5.41 runs under Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003/Vista/7/8 and costs $29.95 (USD) for a single user license. Registered customers are entitled to lifetime technical support and discounts on further updates. Additional information on Icon Software, as well as its 30-day evaluation version with nag screens is available from http://www.iconutils.com.
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