[Clipart] Image only SVG files

[J.M.P. Alves]

Indeed, that is bad. Differently from most people, I did read the
guidelines to artists pages in the old site, years ago, before submitting
anything (I was, I mean, am a newbie and didn't want to do it wrong). And
it used to be forbidden, in the site's Wiki and from what I understood from
discussions in the mail list, to use ANYTHING non-vector in a contribution,
regardless of what is or isn't in the SVG specification. I don't remember
the exact wording, but it was about openclipart.org not becoming yet
another site that stockpiles raster files, which aren't as well scalable
nor can be edited as well as SVG, etc. etc. as everyone here should know by
now. I mean, if one wants to use elements of one of those cliparts
terradeimos identified, one can't without some ugly kludges. And the result
will definitely be suboptimal by some criteria.

Did that policy change and I missed it? The Wiki seems to be gone (the link
http://openclipart.org/wiki/Guidelines at the Participate section redirects
to a blank page at http://openclipart.org/Guidelines), and the available
FAQ (and other) pages do not say anything either way, at least that I could
find in my quick perusal. Is it OK now to post raster, then? To basically
paste a photo in Inkscape and save as SVG?

Cheers
J


On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:12 AM, tdeimos <terradeimos at aol.com> wrote:

> Sorry, you got it all wrong. I know that it would be valid SVG file if you
> embed or link raster images. Mixing vector art and raster images in a SVG
> file is perfectly fine.
>
> My complaint was about SVG files posted on OCAL that contains no vector
> graphics but only embedded or linked raster images. Note that they might
> still be valid in W3C standards but ,in my opinion, they are not proper SVG
> files to post on OCAL.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: S.Kemter <sirko.kemter at gmail.com>
> To: tdeimos <terradeimos at aol.com>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 12:59 pm
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Image only SVG files
>
>
> Guy, come down and who you think you are? Just read the SVG specs on W3C
> you will see that its still an SVG if it contains a raster graphic. Some of
> them wouldnt be visible if you hadnt collect them. Next thing stay away
> from writing others messages with such subjects.
>
> So I tell you here FUCK OFF
>
> br gnokii
>
>
> 2013/2/1 tdeimos <terradeimos at aol.com>
>
> Some of the uploaders think that using the SVG extension is enough for a
> proper file.
> So they keep uploading SVG files without any vector graphics.
> Ex: http://i.imgur.com/wIEazaV.png
>
> I added most of the image only uploads to a collection.
> http://openclipart.org/**collection/collection-detail/**terradeimos/7216<http://openclipart.org/collection/collection-detail/terradeimos/7216>
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Genomics, Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution
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