Saving-Face-1.0.2.sit

[Info-Mac]

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/inet/saving-face-102.hqx

© Simon Fraser 1997
Parts derived from 'compface' by James Ashton

Simon Fraser
[email protected]
http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/
http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/utils.html


* What is it?

Saving Face lets you view and create X-Face headers, which are
encoded 48 x 48 bitmaps used by mail and news users to contain
a picture of their face, or logo of their home insitution.

* What use is that? No Mac mail display X-Face headers.

MacSOUP and MT-NewsWatcher display X-Face headers. A number
of UNIX mail and news readers display them.

* Basic intro

Make a 48 x 48 bitmap in your favourite graphics editor
(e.g. as a ResEdit 'cicn', in Photoshop or whatever). Copy
it from that application. Fire up 'Saving Face'. Do 'New'
to make a new window. Paste in the bitmap. You can hold down
the option key on pasting to scale the image to the window.

Do a 'Save as...' and specify a file name. Open up the resulting
file with a text editor, and copy out the text. It should look
something
like: