[Clipart] PNG only packages?

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.org
Sat Mar 4 13:08:34 PST 2006


Would anyone be interested in working on implementing this in ccHost?  

Bryce

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 06:05:22PM +0000, David Illsley wrote:
> 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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