1#88889: IconMaster Beta Release Version 0.1 Product Comparison IconMaster is an icon editing and management program for Windows 3. The document compares IconMaster with several similar products. IconMaster This program includes a very full set of features for editing, capturing, and managing icons. It is distributed as shareware with a registration fee of $20. Full documentation is included. Ike This program appeared in PC Magazine. It is a very basic icon editor without transparency. It offers no icon management. Documentation is minimal. It is available free. IconDraw 1.2 This is a good basic icon editor without transparency. It offers no icon management. It is distributed as shareware with a registration fee of $15. A fancier version is promised to registered owners. Documentation is minimal. (It crashes on mixed type icon files.) PBIcon 1.1 This program does no icon editing. It allows screen capture and transfer of images from other programs to icon format. It is intended to be used with a program like PaintBrush. Documentation is minimal. It is distributed as shareware with a registration fee of $10. IconTamer 1.0 An icon manager that does not do its own editing but links to any other icon editor. Documentation is very complete. It is distributed as shareware with a registration fee of $15.95 plus $1.50 shipping. IconEditor (IE) 1.3 This is editor is not a windows program. It is plain DOS and therefore not listed in the tables below. It does handle transparent but not inverse transparent colors. Documentation is minimal. It is distributed as shareware with a registration fee of $10. Icon Designer by hDC 1.0 This is an editor and previewer. It handles transparent but has no editing tools beyond single pixel brush. Has good on-line help but no manual at all. It is a comercial program that sells for about $40. SDK Paint This program comes with Microsoft's Windows Development Kit. It can do all forms of cursors and icons. Others There are a number of icon collections such as Sight and IconLib that simply bundle lots of icons into one EXE file. You can't do a lot with these other than look at them of click-click forever through them to install one in the Program Manager. COMPARISON TABLE The catagories in the table are: Edit - create new icons and change existing ones. Capture - make an image on the screen into an icon Preview - see many icons at once Manage - sort and move icons around while able to see at least the one being manipulated The symbols are: x Feature is present - Feature is present but limited b Feature is present but broken, behaves strangely z Crashes o Feature is not present Icon Ike Icon PB Icon Icon SDK Master Draw Icon Tamer Designer Paint Edit x x x o o x x Sizeable Window x o x o x Standard ICO Files x x x o x Extract 32x32 from mixed ICO files x o z o x Formats other than 32x32 o o o o x Extract from .EXE o o o x o Edit in .EXE o o o o o Transparency x o o x o Transparency in edit display x o o x o Show on colored backgrounds x o o o o Undo x x o o x Revert x o o x x Copy/Cut/Paste o -b o o - Clear x o x x x Mirror/Flip x o o o o Fill x - o o x ReColor x o o o o Variable Brush x o o o x Rectangles & Ellipses x x x o x Screen Capture x o o x x o o Magnify x o o Single pixel adjust x x o Shrink/expand o o x Preview x o o o o x o Standard ICO x o Show icon names x o Manage x o o o x x o See multiple icons x o x Delete x x x Rename x x o Copy/Move x x - Change format o x o As you can see from the above comparison, IconMaster haas virtually all of the features of the other products combined in one integrated package. Try it, you'll like it. This program appeared in PC Magazine. It is a very basic icon editor without transparenwsqmigUca_#[(WSO<$ wso%kg c_*[WStO|K |z w sA o k g c-_/[FWwSOK DDDD g c-_/[FWwSO6<~ \ ,^DDDD g c-_/[FWwSO6~ \ ,^D 6~ \ ,^6~ \ ,^DDDDSDUDaD!D#D(DD6~ \ ,^ DDDDDDD%DDD D6~ \ ,^ DD*DDDDrDtD|Du Dw D6~ \ ,^ w x Dz D D D DDrDtD|Du Dw D6~ \ ,^ D D9 D D DDrDtD|Du Dw D6h~ \ ,^ D D9 D D DDrDtD|Du Dw D6~ \ ,^ D D D$ D? DDrDtD|Du Dw D6~ \ ,^? A Db D D D DDrDtD|Du Dw D6~ \ ,^ D D D D) D? D^ Dx D D D D6~ \ ,^ D D D D0 DC D\ Dn D D D D6~ \ ,^ D D D D0 DC D\ Dn D D D D6~ \ ,^ D 6~ \ ,^6~ \ ,^ D-D/D~ \ ,^6~ \ ,^/FD\ /6~ \ ,^6~ \ ,^\uDw /6~ \ ,^6~ \ ,^wD /6~ \ ,^6~ \ ,^DDDDD~ \ ,^6~ \ ,^DDDDD~ \ ,^6<~ \ ,^Lify x o o Single pixel adjust x x o Shrink/expand o o x Preview x o o o o x Standard ICO x  Helvon names x o Manage x o o o x x See multiple icons x o x Delete x x x Rename x x o Copy/Move x