Howdy all. I decided last night to set about changing the Display menu extra icon to look like the more modern Cinema Displays just for kicks. It seems silly that Apple still is using an icon that looks like the older ones they replaced a few years ago. Anywho, in past versions of OS X, this was pretty simple. The icon consisted of a pair of .tif graphics that were easily modified and replaced. On my Powerbook running Panther, I still have a replacement in use that resembles a Powerbook.
The problem I've run into now is that for some bizarre reason, the icon Apple now uses in Leopard for the menu extras is a PDF file. I'm a bit baffled because, firstly, I didn't think PDF was an actual graphics format, and secondly, I didn't think PDF supports transparency layers. I tried modifying it anyway in Seashore and then 'printing' to a PDF format, but that just didn't work out. All replacements I tried wound up giving me a blank spot on the menu. Anyone have any notion how to properly edit or recreate these particular files?
fyi... the menu extras are found in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras

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