[Steve SpotOn]

I'm producing a CD which wil be replicated and is for viewing on both Mac's and PC's. I'd like the disc to have a company logo image (an icon) that appears when the CD is inserted into the CD drive.

I have tried copying and pasting images from the 'Get info' method on files and this works OK with files on my Mac. However if I try to copy this to a CD the icon disappears.

I'm using OS9.2, Photoshop 5.5 and Toast 4.

Do I need a particular application? Will icons be read on both Mac and PC?

Thanks in anticipation.

[Adam Betts]

You'd have to paste the icon first before burn it. For CD-R, once you pasted the icon there, it cannot be changed.

[Dogma]

Well, bit of a funny one.

Depends entirely how you're burning your master copy, and indeed, what platforms you're intending it for.

For disks on a Mac under OS 9 or below, a simple copy paste on your disk image that you are developing on will usually copy straight over onto the CD when you burn, as for windows, I believe the same goes for that. They do however, use two totally separate icon formats, so you would have to either do the windows icon as a cut and paste on the windows side, or stick the .ICO file in the root directory of the PC volume.

As for Mac OS X - that's a sticky one. I've not had any disks come up with custom icons on OS X, so you're luck is out on that respect I think. However, with OS X, you can set a background image for the disk itself, meaning it could be more personalised overall.

If you could tell us how you're burning as well - are you doing it Hybrid, two seperate volumes on one disk or what? Are you just dragging files from the computer into the toast window, or are you creating the disk on a disk copy image or separate volume before comitting it to burn?

[Steve SpotOn]

The file I'm burning is simply a video as a single Mpeg 1 file (which can be read and played on Mac's and PC's). Normally I would burn my CD in Toast as an ISO 9660.
For some reason at the moment in Toast I can't seem to drag and drop files, I have to 'add' files .... could this be related to icon disappering?
I've also tried cut and pasting an icon to the Mpeg file but this also disappers.

I've read about some programmes for creating icons such as 'clip2icns' and 'Icon Builder' but don't want to get into these unless it works across both PC's and Mac's.

Any thoughts/help much appreciated.

[Dogma]

ISO 9660 will be tough to enable a Mac viewable icon. Mac and WIndows use two separate icon formats, therefore a PC volume (9660) will usually only show the PC icon.

Making PC icons is the pain part for us mac guys, as it's not viewable as an icon in the GUI.

IconBuilder used to work for me quite well, and as memory serves me, came with a few tutorials on how to set the icons for multi platforms. It used to be available from the iconfactory.

As for OS X CD icons - I just saw a CD with a custome icon - World Book. Just setting your icns file as ".VolumeIcon.icns" on the root directory should work, also enabling the file itself to be invisible form the system.