[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] clker.com - part 3

[momo at lumenstudio.net]

> I try to contribute back to OCAL to not be a leech like cker, though.

I don't really understand why you call clker.com a "leech". Whoever created 
this website has all the right to do anything he wants with the cliparts 
since they are all public domain. And there is no harm in having another 
library on the web that mirrors the contents of OCAL. Actually I had a look 
at clker.com and I find it quite useful, since the creator managed to create 
a whole bunch of usabilities that are on the OCAL todo list for quite some 
time:
- searching among tags
- automatically generated ODG and PNG (more than that the PNGs are generated 
in 3 different sizes!!)
- a functioning voting system (OCAL's one is broken since the move to OSUOL 
servers and looks like it will still be broken for quite some time...)

So basically clker.com is IMO more user-friendly right now and once again 
there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to call this site a leech.

Molumen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Bulmash" <oneminuteinspirations at gmail.com>
To: <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] clker.com - part 3


> I've been using thousands of pieces of OCAL artwork at FunDraw.com...
>
> http://www.fundraw.com/clipart
>
> It's mixed in with pieces I've picked up from other PD clipart sites,
> stuff I generated myself (either through vectorizing old art or using
> my very rudimentary skills), and stuff I had drawn by other artists.
> It's all categorized and keyworded and I offer it in JPG (500 pixel)
> and PNG (transparent - 3500 pixel) sizes.
>
> The reason I don't have it all is mainly because the FunDraw Flash
> application and ImageMagick based renderer need it in EPS and SWF
> formats.  Illustrator's export of SVG to SWF isn't always perfect and
> their export to EPS has more issues than it's worth describing, so I
> have to use Inkscape for the EPS conversion, but that occasionally
> delivers less than optimal conversions.
>
> I try to contribute back to OCAL to not be a leech like cker, though.
>
> - Greg
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