Index of /pics/AIL
appl/www Wide World Web Server Icons
This directory is a SOURCE directory of the World Wide Web icons and as
such is in the libraries own format X Bitmaps and X Pixmaps. However the
Web prefers its images in the GIF format and as such when installing the
icons you convert them to this format with appropriate transparency
arangments. See below.
The .html files in this directory are designed for use in the /images
directory of a Http Web Server as ``Image Examples''. See our own
``Server Information'' document on http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/http/
The links in this files are full paths so that client programs looking at
these files can find the GIF images in the current servers /images area
regardless of if reading from the actual library directory and to keep
web spiders happy. (A Kludge)
A gzip'ed tar file of all these icons is available from
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/images/Images.tar.gz
WARNING: While most of the icons in this directory follow the standard
color table of the library, not all of them do. The `granite' icons for
instance would not convert well to the standard color table. You have
been warned.
Some X Pixmap files are also using the ``Transparent'' or ``None'' color
available in this format. To properly convert these icons into GIF files
with the correct transparency setting for most WWW clients, you are
recommended to use the "xbm2gif" script which can be found in the
"support/scripts" section of this library. This script is not stand alone
and relies on one other script ("x2p.sed") and the PbmPlus filter library
(see main library README) to be present on your shell's PATH.
This script ("xbm2gif") has a -t option to handle these special Pixmaps.
The script first converts the X Pixmap `Transparent' color and the `white'
color of X bitmaps into a Grey shade, and then set this as the GIF's
transparent color in the final conversion phase. The resulting GIF will
then to be usable by the maximum number of clients including those which
do not understand the GIF transparency extension.
Example Conversion
Convert bitmaps into Gifs (white becoming transparent)
xbm2gif -t [a-z]*.xbm
Convert pixmaps into Gifs (with appropriate transparency)
xbm2gif -t [a-z]*.xpm
NOTE: DO NOT convert Pixmaps to GIF with transparency if the original X
Pixmap does not have transparency (for example on Button images).
Otherwise some other shades of grey my also become transparent on some web
browsers when they shouldn't. Mosaic is one example of this. Currently the
"xbm2gif" script checks if transparency is actually required before
appling converting them correctly and appropriately into GIF.
NCSA Mosaic for X window users please note the alturnative color resources
located in ``support/color-ad/Mosaic.ad''. This forces mosaic to conform
to using the same colors as the rest of the icon library. This reduces the
number of colors used by mosaic itself making more available for other
purposes, like the displayed html documents. This is however an optional
and personal choice.
See ``docs/contribs'' for a list of sites where many of these www icons
were retrieved from.
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Specific Big Contribs
Greg Bossert <bossert@maurolycus.rutgers.edu>
http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/doc-images/
The original 40x40 and 20x20 button icons in the ``appl/www'' area.
About half of these in this section are his icons including the
arrows, homes, gopher, images, etc. and also the basic style and
philosophy of these images.
I and other users on the WWW have added many many more to this set
by editing various ``desc/cl-32'' icons into the appropriate button
style. NOTE: all these icons have been converted to the libraries
standard color table.
R Kramarik <rkramari@lithium.helios.nd.edu>
The idea of using the crossfire thin walls as ``Box/'' parts.
Anthony Hall <ahall@csu.edu.au>
For the first seven roman numerals. Anyone else like to increase
this to 12?
Clint Chamberlin <cac@mtmis1.mis.semi.harris.com>
A couple of www buttons:- electronics, file_trans, runner, server
Sachiko Oba <sachi@interport.net>
The small colored squares and miscelanous furniture.
http://www.interport.net/~sachi/
The World Wide Web as a Whole
A complete list of all the sites icons have been collected from
Usally only one or two per site. can be found toward the end of
the ``docs/contribs'' document. Thanks to everyone concerned.
In particular
http://helix.rice.edu/Icons/ for the start of the Latex2Html buttons
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The following sets of arrows should be used together, don't mix 'n' match
double arrows: next.xbm prev.xbm back.xbm cross-ref.xbm top.xbm
plain arrows: up.xbm left.xbm right.xbm
plain2 arrows: up2.xbm left2.xbm right2.xbm
shadow arrows: shadow_{left,right}.xbm
shadow lg arrows: shadow_lg_{left,right}.xbm
granite arrows: granite_{up,left,right,top}.xpm
color arrows: color_{up,left,right}.xpm
buttons: button_{up,left,right,back,next,prev,top,more}.xpm
Note that `up' goes with `left' and `right'
while `back' goes with `next' and `prev'.
I myself prefer the double arrows which were distributed with NCSA httpd.
The std_* icons for title bar logos. And the button_* icons for links
to other locations. This is my preferance, you do not need to follow this.
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See Also
appl/desktop/file Expanded set of Index icons for NCSA Httpd server.
appl/math Large set of Greek and super/subscripts for math docs.
Anthony Thyssen <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au> http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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