Placing image icon on top of batch file

i am creating a batch file , now i want to place application specific icon on top of that file , so how can i do it through my code
File batchFile = new File(installationDirectory+ "\\"+ "QTL.bat");
fos = new FileOutputStream(batchFile);
DataOutputStream dos=new DataOutputStream(fos);
dos.writeBytes("set JAVA_HOME="+ "\""+ javaHome+ "\"" +"\n");
dos.writeBytes("set QTL_HOME="+ installationDirectory+ "\n");
dos.writeBytes("cd %QTL_HOME%"+ "\n");
Regards

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i am creating a batch file , now i want to place application specific icon on top of that file , so how can i do it through my code
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You can't - a batch file doesn't have an Icon or a place to store one.
On Windows you can specify the icon for a shortcut.
1. create a shortcut on the desktop to the batch file
2. right-click the shortcut and select 'Change Icon
3. select your icon from the available list or point to another DLL that has the icon you want to use.
The only way to do the above programatically is to use the Win API to programatically create the shortcut and do it.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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add text in InDesign
Save as PDF
Some say creating the whole poster or design in Photoshop (even cutting out the pictures of the artists and rasterizing them) is better than placing each of them separately in InDesign?
Anyone who has a good website or explanation for me to answer my question? Tips and tricks are welcome!
Thanks!

If the background is the same behind all images then you better do it in Photoshop because the file size of the background itself when flatten will be similar with or without all images added on top of it. Other reasons that you may choose to do it as separate images is if you want the different images with different resolutions, for example if the background is some blurry clouds or some abstract gradients you don't really need to be very high resolution and if the images on top have some fine details you may decide to have them with higher resolution. The other consideration is if you want more flexibility with the composition in inDesign in case of eventual changes. So, it all depends on different things. The text you should do in inDesign.

Bounding box of placed pdf 'reflecting' objects of parent Ai file... Not what I want!

As a self-taught Illustrator CS3 user I keep running into confounding issues. The latest is this:
Artboard is US letter size. I have a placed jpg image in the top half that extends beyond the artboard on one side. Only want 3/4 of the jpg content
in the final product.
Some text at the bottom.
All in all a basic poster.
A clipping mask hides the part of the image that extends past the arboard.
I save this 'parent' Ai file as a copy PDF - no layers - no editing - no thumbnails ect. Keep original Ai parent file for later editing.
I want to put this PDF into another ai document, but when I do, the bounding box extends past the pdf content out to
where the jpg image is in the parent Ai file.
Why? Why can't I save a pdf that produces a stand alone img/doc without any apparent connection to its 'parent'? Why can't this just happen without me having to crop the original jpg in photoshop to fit the parent Ai document perfectly and or somehow crop the image in the parent Ai.
Oh, and I have tried the crop tool and "make" crop area under the Object menu that contains only what is showing on the artboard.
Same result.
PDF that in Preview shows correctly but when placed in another ai file somehow 'becomes' larger with a bounding box that includes much more than what is actually there.
This is maddeningly stupid IMO.
Hope someone can be that patient professor of the design/Illustrator course that I can't afford, but that I need so desperately all the time.

Why?
I don't know; I just chalk it up as another instance of the sloppiness that permeates Illustrator, and the convoluted multiple nested clipping paths so common in PDFs.
If I place the PDF as a Link, its bounding box corresponds to the clipping mask of the PDF.
If I place the PDF embedded, not linked, then I get the result you describe.
That arguably sort of makes sense in that, when you "place" (but embed) a PDF in Illustrator, you're really importing its content, including the nested clipping paths; and AI CS3 and prior always displays the bounds and edges of masked portions of clipping paths. When you "place" the PDF as a link, it's a preview that displays on the page, as if you were just linking a raster image.
In CS4 and CS5, Adobe finally fixed the silliness of displaying edges of masked portions of the content of clipping paths, so in those versions, it probably acts the way you want whether linked or embedded. (I only have CS3 on this laptop, so can't verify right now.)
JET

Bottom image showing thru top image, help

hi,
i received a pdf, looking at it thru preview looks fine. placed pdf in indesign file (cs3) and can see bottom image coming thru top image. Want bottom image (globe) behind top image, but showing thru. If I check off Overprint Previes it looks fine but still looks bad in indesign file and still prints (from printer) that way. How do I fix this?
thanks

A bit confused by the question without seeing an example but I'll try and help. If you want the image top image to overprint (making the bottom one show through) you could select the image in InDesign and set the Effect (effects panel) to multiply.
Paul

Placing image icon on top of batch file

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