Icon Composer and OS X 10.8.3

Simply it does not work; It crashes while dragging pngs to 128*128 squares or higher.
Works with 32 * 32 icons; Mac OS 8.3 Mountain Lion

Not yet, but in the meantime I wrote another tool to help to prepare .PNG for IconCreator: PNG Preparator 0.1
http://www.roam.it/soft/pp/
You can now create your icons in PNG files with these sizes:
16 * 16 pixel
32 * 32 pixel
64 * 64 pixel
128 * 128 pixel
256 * 256 pixel
512 * 512 pixel
1024 * 1024 pixel
save them as .PNG respectively as
16.png
32.png
64.png
128.png
256.png
512.png
1024.png
create a folder with a name of your choice, eg. "abcd".
move the .PNG files in "abcd" folder, open with PNG Preparator and you'll obtain an inconset, a folder named "abcd.iconset", containing all you need to create your icon.
Then open "abcd.iconset" with IconCreator:
http://www.roam.it/soft/ic/
and you'll have "abcd.icns", your icon file.
That's all.
Shortlink to PP and IC are:
http://www.roam.it/soft/pp/pp.zip
http://www.roam.it/soft/ic/ic.zip
Bye

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