[Clipart] OpenOffice and OpenClipArt

[Nicu Buculei]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
> 
>> The key problem is OOo does _not_ import SVG images,
> 
> 
> It /sort of/ does now. There is a new /plugin/ that lets you import SVG 
> images *but* not in an editable way.
> 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SVGImportFilter

I know about this and stay prepared to read some flames about it :D
I remember all the talk a few months ago all the talk about OOo not 
being really free as more and more parts of it depends by the 
proprietary Java. And the conflict was solved by OOo developers pledging 
to support only features available in free implementations (basically 
Java 1.4)
Guess what? This plugin requires Java 5.0

Probably it will get away being only a plugin and not available in the 
default install (as OOo 2.0 is in feature freeze for quite some time, 
very close to RC, and new features are not added) so less important for 
end-users.

> In other words, the plugin lets OOo open and render SVG images, but it 
> doesn't translate them to the OpenDocument format. It appears that 
> translating SVG to OpenDocument is not easy.
> 
> So, this is better than using bitmap images (it's scalable) but not as 
> good as true import.

It should be also mentioned this is work in progress, with limited 
functionality 
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SVGUnsupportedFeatures), 
but is a notable start.

-- 
nicu