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Icon Archiver 4.0 - Powerful Icon Database for 8.5 (icon-archiver-40.hqx)

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From: alm@montalcini.com
Subject: Icon Archiver 4.0 - Powerful Icon Database for 8.5


The Icon Archiver is an extremely powerful database
specifically designed for easy icon storage and retrieval. It
can quickly scan whole disks or folders and grab all the icons
they contain, including those you won't ever see in the Finder
and all icon archives created by other icon utilities. It can
easily export them in most graphics formats, including the ones
you need for your web pages. Drag & Drop is fully supported, so
you can create or stick custom icons by simply dragging them
around. All icons are compressed on the fly to save memory and
disk space, and archives can contain a very large number of
icons (unlike all other icon utilities which are limited to a
few hundreds). Advanced features include removing duplicate
icons, sorting them by shape, filtering them by size or color
depth, and viewing them in many different ways. The Archiver
includes native PowerPC code and its icon handling routines are
highly optimized for maximum speed.

Even if you hate custom icons, you'll be fascinated by the
number of icons that come out of a typical shareware CD-ROM like
the ones that are bundled with many Mac magazines. No matter
what you use your Mac for, this is guaranteed to give you
countless hours of fun and entertainment as well as a much nicer
desktop.

New in version 4.0:

- Fully supports Mac OS 8.5.
- The file format has changed to make it even more efficient.
Icon Archiver archives are now smaller than StuffIt files.
- Supported icon types include 32-bit and 48x48 huge icons.
- Additional list views and options added for the new icons.
- Individual icon comments are now available.
- Icons can be sorted by identity (faster) or similarity.
- New commands include Trim To Selection, selective Add and
Remove Sizes, smart Picture Conversion options and more.
- Sorting icons now flags an archive as modified.
- Icon names are no longer truncated to 24 characters.
- The Archiver starts up much faster when AppleTalk is on.
- The ICO plugin correctly generates 16x16 and 48x48 icons.
- Many other improvements were made, including better error
reporting, smarter menu commands and more...