Re: Vector artist offering to do clip art

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:41:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz@yahoo.com>
> To: James Puckett <james.puckett@gmail.com>, abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Vector artist offering to do clip art
>
>
> Hi James,
>
> There is quite a big clipart collection project
> already. Perhaps you'd be interested in helping them
> out.
>
> http://www.openclipart.org/

I was going to say that. I've contributed a few hundred gradients and
patterns to OpenClipart.org myself and they are a nice group of people
although things are a little shakey as the project is relatively new.

Now that there is a project focussed on Free Vector Clipart it doesn't
make sense for Abiword to maintian a seperate collection, although it
would be nice if distributions would start shipping the OpenClipart.org
Library (but they aren't providing packages beyond tar.gz which probably
doesn't help).

If you have problems with OpenClipart.org, like the requirement to put
your artwork in the public domain under a Creative Commons License then it
might be possible to work something out but it is vastly more convenient
for everyone if we work with established projects.

> > If you're interested, please let me know. I'll also need to know what
> > format the art should be in, as well as a list of categories needed,
> > size specifications, etc..

Thanks for your offer, we would want any clipart to be in Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) format preferably without any Adobe extensions
(there are many export options buried in Illustrator but it is possible to
produce something very close to standard SVG although things like mesh
grids get lost and converted to flat PNG unfortunately).

> > The only problem I can see with my helping is that Abiword only
> > appears to support clip art on Linux platforms, and I don't run Linux.

I've used the PNG clipart for Abiword on both Linux and Windows. I dont
recally using SVG clipart with abiword but if it does not already work I
expect the SVG plugin will become available for more platforms.

Thanks for using Abiword.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
Dia is for Diagrams http://gnome.org/projects/dia/
Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org
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Received on Sun Dec 5 16:07:22 2004