[Clipart] PNG only packages?

[David Illsley]

What about a java applet that could do the rendering on the client  
side given a list of URLs...

Need to ponder more but wanted to get the idea out.

David

On 4 Mar 2006, at 13:11, Matthew Gates wrote:

> I suspect PNG-only packages would be enourmous for the whole library -
> hundreds of Mb, possibly even more than a Gb if the resolution was
> decent.
>
> Perhaps we could implement some sort of shopping basket thing, where
> people browsing the site check cliparts they want to use, and at
> "checkout" they get to download a zipfile or tarball containing their
> chosen cliparts in a format of their choice?
>
> e.g.
>
> * user chooses 6 cliparts
> * user checks out, selects .zip format
> * user selects PNGs @ typical resolution 800x600
> * user gets a zipfile made for them
>
> It might be heavy on the servers to do on-demand rendering of
> different raster formats from the SVG, but if we offer a set of
> "standard resolutions", we'd just have to generate once for each
> resolution, and then only the packaging is on-demand.
>
> -- 
> Matthew Gates
> http://porpoisehead.net/
>
> On Saturday 04 Mar 2006 04:46, Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form
> wrote:
>> Name: Steven Whetzel
>> E-mail: neutro511 at yahoo.com
>>
>>
>> I think the subject says it all.  Could save some folks a lot of
>> time.
>>
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