[Clipart] getting pictures into abiword

[Jon Phillips]

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:30 -0800, Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form
wrote:
> Name: Mark Jones
> E-mail: mjones at nusd.org
> 
> 
> Hi all-
> I'm a sixth grade teacher looking for a suitable replacement for
> MSWord (we can no longer afford licenses) Abi word seems to be fine
> for our purposes but I need a good clipart source for the program,
> which is where you come in :>) I've successfully downloaded the .exe
> Windows install app and that went fine. All the clipart is in svg
> format and I can't get any of the pics to open, let alone get them
> into Abi word. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Mark Jones
> Sinaloa Middle School

Hi Mark!

Yes, download Inkscape for Windows (http://www.inkscape.org/) and have
your way with converting the SVG into other formats. You will more than
likely convert to PNG, a simple bitmap graphics format for the svg
files.

Hope this helps!

Jon


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