[Technical] Open Clip Art Library

[Keith Richardson]

Thank you Con - a most informative reply.
Cheers, Keith


On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:50:14 +1000, "Con Zymaris" <conz at cyber.com.au>
said:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:10:41PM +1000, Keith Richardson wrote:
> > Thank you Con - what programs would one use to work with these?
> > Keith
> > 
> 
> The clipart is mostly in PNG, SVG and WMF formats. 
> 
> PNG is a lossless bitmap format which should be usable by all current 
> applications that can handle graphics. Use PNG when working with images 
> that you intend to do any manipulation on. JPEG is lossy and loses 
> integrity very quickly.
> 
> WMF is the old-style simple vector format which is used by most/all 
> vector-based drawing apps.
> 
> SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is the new XML-based more complex/powerful
> vector format which is replacing WMF and also competing with Flash for 
> animations. Unlike Flash, it's an open standard and usable by all modern 
> web browsers. SVG, unlike Flash, is supported by the W3C which manages 
> web standards.
> 
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/animate.html
> 
> As for apps which can do some/all three and can run on multiple platforms 
> (Win, Mac, Linux), try these:
> 
>  http://www.inkscape.org/
> 
>  http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
> 
>  http://www.openoffice.org/
> 
>  http://www.gimp.org/
> 
>  http://www.abiword.org/
> 
>  http://www.scribus.net/ (Desktop publishing, Linux only)
> 
>  http://www.koffice.org/ (Office suite, Linux only)
> 
> All of these are zero cost and open source. You can install them on every 
> computer in your school with no licence hassles.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Con Zymaris
> 
> - CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
> - Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
> - Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)
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