[Clipart] Clip Art & OpenOffice

[Jon Phillips]

Thats cool BRYCE, we really need to push upstream to get OO.o to support
SVG, but RWORTH said he had the svg2png working, so hopefully we can get
that implemented to build bitmap files on the fly.

That is great about showing the project to folks at OSDL. I wish I could
get some sponsorship for OSCON, and then we could host a Bird of a
feather session for the project.

Any sponsorship out there?

Jon

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 15:45, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> I've been showing folks here at OSDL some of the great stuff getting
> accumulated into the clip art library:
> 
> * Our new Director of Engineering is putting together a presentation in
>   OpenOffice and wants to include several slides with computers (I think
>   to show what sorts of hardware we want to provide to the community),
>   but ran into some issues:
> 
>   - What's the best way to import SVG clip art into OpenOffice, given
>     that it doesn't support SVG?
> 
>   - He would like to see more clip art for high end computer systems -
>     disk arrays, router boxes, wall racks, etc.  
> 
>   - Since he's making diagrams he's looking for 2D front views of
>     equipment as opposed to the 3D iso images in our collection.
> 
>   + He thought it was pretty cool that we were doing this via
>     the Freedesktop folks.  :-)
> 
> * The tech marketing guy loved the vectorialized Tux, as he's been
>   hassling with having to resize the bitmapped Tux for all sorts of
>   things.
> 
> * Again it's noticed that previews would be very well received, although
>   I've found that Konqueror is able to view SVG files natively without
>   crashing too often.  :-)
> 
> Bryce
> 
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