I'd be glad to help as much as I possibly can with my limited time. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Bernhard Dippold < bernh...@familie-dippold.at> wrote:
> Hi all, > > the website project discusses a way to present OpenOffice.org extensions > more prominently on the website. > > One of the four main topics among these extensions are cliparts that can be > integrated in the program's gallery that is quite poor in comparison to the > cliparts in MS Office. > > What do you think about creating new clipart galleries? > > They can presented for download on the wiki, and if we consider them to be > good enough to become official, they should be moved to an official artwork > gallery and might be integrated in the core program in a second step. > > IMHO this might be an excellent opportunity for us to take a quite > important task for the program as well as to improve the Art Project's > position in the OOo community. > > Do you think we could manage such a task? > > It would consist of several steps: > > - creation of the artwork > - integrating it in a new clipart gallery in OOo > - creating an extension for easy integration by the user > > Clipart under Public Domain is available at the OpenClipart.org project at > http://www.openclipart.org. > Step two is a bit tricky as OOo doesn't import all complex vector files > without any problem, but I managed it for quite a number of files from the > clipart contest in 2006, so I'm confident that I remember how it worked. > For step three I'm going to provide a short how-to in the wiki. > > There are a few extensions available already at the extension website and > at the PrOOo-Box the de-project provides: > > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/GalleryDangerSigns > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/freie-schaltzeichen > http://live.prooo-box.org/de/html/gallery.html (sorry, German text) > > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/oxygenoffice-gallery(non-free) > > Does anybody know about other clipart extensions? > > What are your thoughts in general? >
