TomW wrote: > John Boyle wrote: >> Harold Fuchs wrote: >> >>> On 03/03/2009 01:13, John Boyle wrote: >>> >>>> To ALL: Can anyone tell me how do you gain access to the open clip art >>>> library from either OpenOffice or Scribus? :-[ >>>> >>>> >>> OOo's "internal" library is at Tools>Gallery. Not too much there >>> though. So ... >>> Googling "openoffice clipart" without the quotes finds lots of >>> goodies. I found the second URL by entering "clipart" into the >>> Extension page's search box; 'twas Google led me there too: >>> http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Clipart-to-OpenOffice.org >>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/search/node/clipart >>> >>> >> To Harold Fuchs and USERS: What I meant was, I have it downloaded to my >> computer, now I need to know how to use it with OOo or Scribus? :-[ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > John: > > On my Vista machine I found that I could install the clipart as follows: > > Download the windows executable for the clipart. > Install it. Its default install is in the Program Files folder, but > you can change the location. > Open OO Writer > Open the Gallery > Use the "New Theme" button to create a new folder. > This opens a Dialog window with two tabs. > Give it a name in the "General" tab > Then select the "Files" tab. > Select the "Find Files" Tab and then locate and select the "Open Clip > Art" folder. > This will find all the clipart files in all the subfolders. In this > case they are all png files. OO does not recognize the svg files. > After it finds all the files, select "Add All" > This will create the link to the new theme folder. This will take a > few minutes. > When it finishes, click Ok. > Now all the png clipart files will display in the gallery under your > new theme name. > > One problem with this issue, is that there are no sub categories for > the different clipart themes in Open ClipArt. > The only way I found I could keep the sub-categories is to create a > new theme for each sub-category and only load the appropriate > sub-folder. This would be a lot of work. Maybe someone else has a > way to achieve this. > > TomW > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > To ALL who answered, I did not know that Open Clip art library was that old. Second, I will try TomW's suggestion and then, if that does not work, I will see what I can Google for newer clipart. I was under the impression, when I downloaded it, that it was fairly new, but, Oh well! To both TomW and Harold Fuchs, thank you for the information! :-)
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