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Icon Slate Changelog

What's new in Icon Slate 4.6.0

Mar 30, 2020
  • iPad and iPhone are now two distinct formats. The exported files are now recognized automatically by XCode when dragged on an app icon asset.
  • This version brings also Improvement on the new project and export panels for more consistency and readability.

New in Icon Slate 4.5.0 (Jan 22, 2020)

  • A long-overdue update that fixes issues with the latest macOS releases and brings new sizes to iOS and Apple Watch formats.

New in Icon Slate 4.4.9 (Sep 27, 2016)

  • Fix retina png definition (144)
  • Fix fix paste from Illustrator CC 2015.3

New in Icon Slate 4.4.8 (Jul 25, 2016)

  • Finder icon format has been rebuild from the Ground up to support retina icon and the same options as ICNS format.

New in Icon Slate 4.4.7 (Apr 19, 2016)

  • Fix iPad pro icon size.

New in Icon Slate 4.4.6 (Mar 16, 2016)

  • The ICNS format now supports the sidebar icon sizes (18 and 18@2x).
  • A bug affecting "include effects in build files" has been fixed.

New in Icon Slate 4.4.5 (Jan 31, 2016)

  • Add iPad Pro icon size.

New in Icon Slate 4.4.4 (Nov 10, 2015)

  • Fixes:
  • The icon view is no longer empty when creating a project with images or icons (ICNS/ICO).
  • Preview windows on OS X El Capitan

New in Icon Slate 4.4.3 (Sep 8, 2015)

  • Fix customization of template name for Retina image files

New in Icon Slate 4.4.2 (Jun 10, 2015)

  • Fix build on systems inferior to Yosemite.

New in Icon Slate 4.4.1 (Jun 4, 2015)

  • Finder/Share extensions have been removed due to Apple request (Use instead the services).
  • Old convert services have been replaced with two new services that let you convert images or combine them.
  • Icon Slate documents are now visible in iCloud Drive directory.

New in Icon Slate 4.4 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • New:
  • Extensions for Yosemite that lets you create icons directly in Finder
  • Export panel: you can now convert opened images directly in another formats or create a project with this images.
  • New plugin for Sketch that works with the App Store version (Install: Icon Slate menu > Install Sketch plugin). It uses the brand new export panel.
  • Apple Watch format and appearance
  • Redesigned new project panel
  • Predefined format configurations (Favicon, Mobile, Desktop)
  • Fixes:
  • A bug affecting the size 40x40 in ICO format
  • A bug affecting Format selections
  • A bug affecting dragged PDF images

New in Icon Slate 4.3 (Jan 29, 2015)

  • You can now extract a size as a PNG by dragging it to a Finder window
  • Various fixes

New in Icon Slate 4.2 (Dec 22, 2014)

  • You can now export icons directly from Sketch app using Icon Slate (Click on Icon Slate menu to install the plugin)
  • The format panel bug on retina screen has been fixed.

New in Icon Slate 4.1.2 (Dec 2, 2014)

  • The automator plugin will now quit Icon Slate after converting an Icon if the app was not launched before.
  • Fix Iconset format filenames

New in Icon Slate 4.1.1 (Oct 31, 2014)

  • Fix images opening

New in Icon Slate 4.1 (Oct 17, 2014)

  • Redesigned for Yosemite
  • This version adds the retinaHD sizes (@3x) for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
  • A bug with the ICO format has been fixed

New in Icon Slate 4.0.2 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Fix a bug with custom filename and retina size

New in Icon Slate 4.0.1 (Jun 9, 2014)

  • Fix crashes in OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
  • Fix a bug with locked project
  • Fix Localization of Add Size button

New in Icon Slate 4.0.0 (May 24, 2014)

  • New UI design
  • New icon layout that combines standard and retina sizes
  • File names customization
  • Custom sizes for PNG and TIFF formats
  • New list display (thumbnail)
  • Full-screen for document window
  • Search
  • PNG Optimization
  • Various improvements: Save format configurations as default, panel configuration for new project, new edit menu to clear and fill sizes

New in Icon Slate 3.51 (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Fix a bug introduced in the last version with the renaming of icons from the list

New in Icon Slate 3.50 (Nov 7, 2013)

  • iOS 7: new sizes and appearance preview
  • You can now include appearance effects into build icons files
  • UI improvements (Drag to collapse icons list, ...)

New in Icon Slate 3.43 (Sep 10, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug with resizing of images

New in Icon Slate 3.42 (Jul 26, 2013)

  • Add the xxhdpi (480dpi) size for Android
  • Fix Finder format issue with alpha channel and premultiplied images
  • Fix bug with generated ICNS files when all sizes were not filled

New in Icon Slate 3.41 (Jul 20, 2013)

  • Refactoring of the ICNS format
  • Save in the project the last directory selected for building the icons
  • Minor fixes

New in Icon Slate 3.4 (May 14, 2013)

  • Automator convert action
  • Services to convert images and create project from Finder (activate in Preferences > Keyboard > Services)

New in Icon Slate 3.03 (Apr 27, 2013)

  • Minor UI improvements
  • A transparent background is applied to iOS appearance preview
  • Lion fixes

New in Icon Slate 3.0.2 (Apr 13, 2013)

  • Lion - Fix advanced format panels.

New in Icon Slate 3.0.1 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • Fix iOS export - in some cases, retina or standard icon for iphone was not generated
  • Fix build bug - the "build" was broken when there was no iCloud account configured or documents in the cloud activated.

New in Icon Slate 3.0 (Mar 12, 2013)

  • Formats:
  • iOS and Android formats
  • Formats sizes selection
  • Option to export icns with JPEG 2000
  • Options to export each sizes and icon in separate folders for PNG, iOS, and Android formats
  • Appearance:
  • Choose between three icon layouts (default, iOS, and iOS with gloss effect)
  • Compose mode:
  • Trim transparent pixels from dragged images
  • Copy retina sizes to regular.
  • Fix:
  • bug introduced in 2.11: ICNS files could contain aliasing.
  • bug: Open images could corrupt source files.

New in Icon Slate 2.11 (Jan 4, 2013)

  • Fixes:
  • Crash when exporting icns
  • Graphic bug on the sidebar (title "icons" floating above icons)
  • UI improvement:
  • Double-click on the icons list to edit the titles
  • The state of check-button "create a folder for each icon format" is now saved

New in Icon Slate 2.1 (Oct 11, 2012)

  • New Icons layout
  • Add support for retina icns and remove deprecated size 48.
  • Two new formats : Apple iconset and folder (previously integrated in icns file)
  • Retina UI
  • Better generation of ico files (alpha channel fix)
  • Bug fixes

New in Icon Slate 2.0 (Feb 22, 2012)

  • Offers a new formats selector:
  • You can select multiple formats at once.
  • The icon view displays only the sizes for selected formats.
  • The update lets you create high-definition ICNS files (1024).
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Better integration with Lion
  • General improvement of the UI
  • Export only current icon
  • Sandboxing
  • New application icon.

New in Icon Slate 1.31 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Fix issue introduced in the last update for the "import images" menu.

New in Icon Slate 1.3 (Jul 29, 2011)

  • Autosave and Versions for OSX Lion.

New in Icon Slate 1.2 (Jun 22, 2011)

  • New mode of composition : "Cover". You can now create an icon by using multiple superimposed images.
  • The choice of image done automatically by the application has been improved when dragging multiple images (or with an image with different sizes).
  • Fixed minor bugs on the interface.

New in Icon Slate 1.1 (Jun 8, 2011)

  • Fixed the generation of PNG files.
  • Background correction (wrong color when resizing the window)
  • The zoom for the window is now adapted to the number of icons in the list.