Clipart ??

lrb91849 · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: Clipart ??

Hello,

I am a New User to NeoOfffice, and I would like to take this opportunity to Thank You for you for the Time and Effort you have put into this project.

Prior to NeoOffice I used MS Office X, and from time to time created Word Documents with ClipArt inserted into them.

I was wondering if NeoOffice has a ClipArt File ??? I did not see it when I went into the "Insert" Menu.

Thanks In Advance,

OPENSTEP · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject:

You can look for the Gallery, but in general neither the stock OOo nor Neo come with a clipart library. Clip art is generally copyrighted and can't be redistributed.

There are some various efforts to get open source clip art and templates for OOo like an enhancement pack. One project is the openclipart project which licenses all the art under creative commons:

http://www.openclipart.org/

AFAIK, there's nothing that's directly integrated that's outside the gallery, however.

ed

Orgleser · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject:

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

We should probably add these to our templates list (a couple of the places already listed have a small selection of both).

The "problem" with openclipart.org is that it uses SVG, and OOo/Neo can *export* but not *import* SVG, so to use those, you'd need a 3rd-party tool to convert to EPS, WMF, or some supported bitmap format Sad

Of course, if you have old collections of Mac clipart in PICT or EPS format, Neo can use them just fine, provided they have the extensions that the OOo graphic import filters require (.pct and .eps).

Smokey

jjmckenzie51 · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

LemonAid · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject:

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

No, I wasn't aware they had PNG versions there. I'd never seen one in my browsing (the docs did mention they had some WMFs, but I've never run across any of those, either).

That's certainly a helpful hint for those who don't need vector clipart, and one less bit of conversion to do.

jjmckenzie51 · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:20 am Post subject:

Guest · Guest

Inkscape can open .svg graphics and quickly, easily convert them to .png graphics. Works great for me!

Orgleser · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:29 am Post subject:

Does this mean, you have to manually convert single cliparts for bringing them into a Neo Document?
Shouldn't a long term (or middle range) goal be to have useable, free, GPL (?) Licensed clipart galleries ready for installation into Neo?
AND (I am not firm enough on legal problems) Could one of us do thelike with the openclipart stuff?
T.

OPENSTEP · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject:

We can do it with openclipart as it's Creative Commons licensed (IIRC). The interesting thing with open source licenses is that most of them cover software, not documentation or clip art. There's the FDL, the Sun documentation license, and creative commons. Odd thing is that Stallman went south on creative commons (IIRC), but whatever.

If anyone wants to do templates or clip art, I'd suggest using CC, copyleft, FDL, or the like over GPL.

ed

(chekov has the power of the psychic ju jitsu!)

LemonAid · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 12:03 am Post subject:

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

Big combo reply coming here....

val1984 · Oracle Joined: May 30, 2005 Posts: 229 Location: France

You can use [url=seashore.sf.net]SeaShore[/url] with its SVG import plugin to produce PNG files Smile

It quite fast to launch and it's a sort of lightweight Gimp without X11.

Orgleser · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

Is .png what we would need for galleries?
Or are other formats better? Finding the best format would be a first step.