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MS Clipart wasn't internal, or stored on your local PC since Microsoft Office 2003.

That could quite likely be the last time I was tempted to use clipart in a document.

Probably around then, I snaffled a copy of an open clipart library. But I don't think I've needed to use it since. Try https://openclipart.org/downlo... for a DVD or two.

Or better yet, don't take images from Getty without paying for them. Need an image for free? There are plenty of sites you can use such as OpenClipArt.org, Morgue File, or Wikimedia Commons. You can also search Flickr for images with Creative Commons licenses that allow for the type of use you need. If you really, really, REALLY need an image on a stock photo site like Getty Images and no other free alternative will do, then why not actually pay for it?

Can we stop the "third world and catholics are teh rabbitz" meme? And use instead "Poor people all over the world don't give a fuck/don't know about birth control" It's worst in the first world where you get paid to keep on the breeding thanks to welfare.

In third world countries theres no way the government would say "oh poor thing, now you have 5 babies, here get some food stamps" They most likely say "Tough luck, I really hope you take good care of that children or else we'll take them from you and give it to adoption to someone that cares" if you're really poor and already have other children they offer you the adoption route, in that case the government support the mother across all the 9 months and the baby is usually given to fortunate parents on an ever growing list of kind people that can't or don't want to have children and opt to adopt one.

Most young people here don't want children in their lives, the sexual education is good even on public schools, you can go to any state sponsored sex health clinic and get birth control methods for free, being in a mostly catholic country this is the faces I see when to pope or other retarded dumbass asks to not use condoms or birth control. It's all in the education, because theres poor people all over the world including developed nations, people that probably want to have birth control but either don't know how, don't give a fuck (pun intended) or can't afford it.

Why the hell is OO.o still missing support for SVG? Users have been bitching about this for years, literally. It was a Summer of Code project in 2007 and still, nothing.

Believe it or not, people actually tell me that they don't want OO.o because it doesn't have clip art. Too bad that there thousands of free clip art images out there but OO.o is too SVG-retarded to use them.

Clipart?

http://www.openclipart.org/

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...my coworkers refused to switch to OpenOffice, even though it was completely free. The dealbreaker? lack of clip-art, templates, etc.

http://www.openclipart.org/

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/3686/psakittymk 8.jpg

My wireless internet doesnt work, I am using 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 as WPA key, and got a D-Link 802.11n card on 2.4.21, what is wrong?

I am using the 2.6.21-git4 kernel, and I think that I have found a bug in /dev/random. Whenever I do "cat /dev/random", it spits out "09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0"

09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0

$ ping6 09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0
unknown host

int main() {
    char hexcode[] = { 0x09, 0xF9, 0x11, 0x02, 0x9D, 0x74, 0xE3, 0x5B, 0xD8, 0x41, 0x56, 0xC5, 0x63, 0x56, 0x88, 0xC0 };
    printf("%x", hexcode);
}

$ ping6 09F9:1102:9D74:E35B:D841:56C5:6356:88C0
socket: Address family not supported by protocol

http://openclipart.org/people/Frap/Frap_Freedom_fl ag.svg the HD-DVD processing key is embedded in the image, as color codes on the flag

C:\>ping6 09F9:1102:9D74:E35B:D841:56C5:6356:88C0
Unable to contact IPv6 driver, error code 2.

I never thought clip arts were important, maybe because I don't use them, until my wife (yes, even on /.) really required Clip Arts, and since I'm the pseudo-geek-of-the-house-using-open-stuff-whenever -possible, I had to find public domain clip arts.

http://www.openclipart.org/
http://www.wpclipart.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Clip_Art_Library

My 10 minutes search on the Internet two weeks ago gave no that much interesting results. Only now I can understand how OpenOffice must also, somewhere amongst the priorities, continue to add clip arts and templates.

Define "good". gaim does a fine job for me with AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, and Google IM services (as well as IRC and non-Google Jabber servers). I believe the video/audio support is still not present, but for text purposes, it's fine.

5) Greeting card software (anything good on the linux end?)

Doubtful for straight up specialized software. However, one with an artistic bent might appreciate trying out the suite of GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, and Scribus. If all he wants to do is fill in templates, though, it will be inadequate. If he's feeling really generous, though, he could potentially develop a template and submit it for inclusion at Inkscape or Scribus, and maybe add some more stuff to Open ClipArt to help others as well.

Best of all, you can get him hooked prior to hitting Linux, because everything I just named has a Windows version.

I start like this: Pen/Pencil -> Image Mockup in Photoshop -> XHTML/CSS mockup with real structure.

I know (from personal experience) that GIMP takes some time to learn, and creating graphics from scratch with it is not exactly easy. But for the image mockup stage I have a somewhat unorthodox suggestion. Try Scribus. Since you are doing visual layout anyway, why not use a software that actually is designed to create and manipulate such? Different elements are not tied to graphical layers, and dropping sample texts into them is dead simple.

The really interesting part is that if you end up doing the layout this way, you already have a visual model for CSS box elements. Of course, for the final mockup and image spots you may need some heavy-handed image manipulation (also known as "cheating") but then again, you're selling a project and sales material usually only approximates the truth... (And CSS provides the tricks to pull the same stunts off in any case.)

Personally I have changed to using Scribus when creating diagrams. Takes a little longer than with dia, but the results are damn good-looking and certainly worth the effort. Combine that with some good clip art and you have near-professional quality results.

Unorthodox, or outright heretic? You decide.

A highly perceivable indication of error shall occur. For visual rendering situations, an example of an indication of error would be to render a translucent colored pattern such as a checkerboard on top of the area where the SVG content is rendered.

* Performance metrics V MS Office (Even more so in the PPC Mac version!)

* Comparison of Clipart and Wordart features (My kids won't use OOo cos it has none)

* Cost/Benefit in switching from a version of Office that people/companies already own

Sure, if you don't have any kind of Office software you might try OOo before forking for Office, but if you already own a copy of Office, the time taken to learn new menus and workflow isn't worth switching.

Likewise if you are just gonna pirate Office then it's easier to get what you'll be using at work or school than learn something new.

But since SVG needs the Adobe SVG plugin on IE, i usually draw my clipart in Inkscape or Sodipodi (i forgot which has better Japanese support) then export it to PNG.

A quick Google of svg clipart produces the Open ClipArt Library.

http://www.openclipart.org/ This what you're looking for?

http://openclipart.org/

Couldn't they make the clipart download separate?

Aye, what's wrong with projects like Open Clip Art? Whenever I install Open office for a friend I always point them there next. Instead of bloating OO.o they could instead include a link to open clip art.org (and I'm sure other OSS templates and extras) to satiate that need.

Good breakdown. One of the reasons we haven't been adding Clipart is because of download size. (Currently around 71Mb for Windows.) For Clipart, we have been using http://openclipart.org/ (Which appears to be down at the moment.)

Clipart is a bane on our society.

Quick! Someone better tell the people over at OpenClipart.org! We must stop this menace.

Raster: http://www.code.cx/what-have.png

Vector: http://openclipart.org/clipart/unsorted/what_have_ you_done_dani_.svg

Props to Dr. Seuss for providing the inspriation.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/pm/1942 /20305cs.jpg

http://www.openclipart.org/ ?

What is so cool about SVG is talked about in this keynote. SVG, is vector graphics AND text, AND placed raster images, AND animation described in an open, easy to read format.

One advantage is that you can design a webpage the same way you design a printed piece. Where you have just as much control over it. MS explorer requires an adobe plugin to display it, similarly to how it displays flash. Firefox is going to display SVG natively in the 1.1 browser (actually already does with the deerpark alphas.

The code is easily visible like HTML. The desktops that use SVG for the gui, I don't know much about, but it's fantastic. Nice icons, or buttons or any visual element that is smaller in file size, breaks out of the square we are used to, and the elements can be enlarged or reduced and still be rendered beautifully.

check out inkscape if you want to experiment with svg, or the open clipart library to see some cool examples. of SVG.

http://inkscape.org/
http://openclipart.org/

Here's what mozilla is doing with SVG:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/

See: http://www.code.cx/what-have.png

SVG: http://openclipart.org/clipart/unsorted/what_have_ you_done_dani_.svg :)

You may want to take a look at Open Clip Art - public domain clip art.

Maybe now that people have heard of Inkscape, we can make the Open Clipart repository not suck.

Make clipart! Lots of it! Submit it to OpenClipart!

I'd suggest looking into using SVG for game map creation, because there's getting to be a lot of Open Source tools out there (like Inkscape, that I help develop) that can edit, convert, etc. them. I've done some map making with it and while it lacks many of the advanced features that commercial map tools have, it's got the basics, plus if you can code, you gain the option of adding the feature in yourself. ;-)

Making maps with Inkscape / SVG is different than using CAD-style software like Campaign Cartographer, but you can achieve pretty much the same things. With features like alpha blending, text-to-shape, layers, grouping, shape fills, tiling, and infinite zoom, you can make much "prettier" maps in much less time than it'd take to do in a CAD-like program. See the screenshots to get some ideas of what can be done with these features. It has a fancy calligraphy mode that could be quite handy if you need to hand-write calligraphic text on a map. There's also a nifty bitmap-to-vector tracing tool that might help in converting hand-drawn maps to vectors. Also comes with several useful tutorials (in the Help menu).

There's also a site for sharing SVG clipart (like map symbols), the Open Clip Art Library. Not a lot of RPG art yet, but there's some and it's likely going to grow a lot. Plus, since all of its content is Public Domain, there's no restrictions at all placed on your maps if you use it. I could *easily* imagine this being a way for RPG mappers to collectively build an open library of RPG map symbols and artwork.

The biggest barrier to FLOSS usability is often overwhelming the user with too many options.

Solved problem. Just the distribution of the technique is taking time.

It's proven itself in GNOME: Look at a base GNOME install. It's got a clean user interface, simple user access for everyday things, consistency across apps.

The way it works is that they are super-selective at the distribution level, and they have a written set of documents that you have to conform with, in order to be included in the distro. If someone's out of conformance, but you want to be conformant, they send out a small team of people to help you solve the problems, and gain the honor of joining the distro.

How are the documents determined? There's a set of hackers who work on usability and user interface, and they put together the documents with company and community feedback. (If I understand correctly.)

It's worked, and it's worked very well. Now other groups are copying the method. In particular, if I read Planet KDE right, they're going to adopt this sort of organization as well.

The basic pattern is this:

OpenSource projects, hell, Open anything (I'm immediately thinking: "Clipart,") begins with a lot of scruffy stuff. You have broken technologies, over-configurable this, too much of that, too little of that, and it's all in one gigantic pile of stuff. This is the beginning of a concentration phase.

Then, with time, form starts to standardize, ritualize, and we start to see collections. Now, instead of people just contributing "just because," or having a million options "because someone might want it," or whatever- we start to see people targetting new higher level structures: "The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines," or the blah-blah interfacec, or whatever.

With time, these things are just assumed, and built upon, and are smooth.

So, this is basically a solved problem. About 4 years ago, everyone was sort of wondering, like you were: "Is it possible for hackers to make something with a spiffy and clean and user-friendly UI?"

It may not be as cool as OS X, but: GNOME has clearly proven that the organizational model works, and that hackers can make things that can shape into a nice user interface.

It's just a matter of spreading the knowledge of the technique, now, and adopting it.

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There's been work on adding Dublin Core metadata support to Inkscape, for its next release.

The need for the metadata support is entirely practical in this case: the Open Clip Art Library requires all SVG submissions have proper metadata embedded, to ensure licensing and authorship correctness. Also, there is an SVG Clip Art Browser that uses the metadata info for its display.

One interesting observation that's come up recently and is being discussed on the lists is what happens when you embed several pieces of clipart into a larger document, how do you access the RDF of the individual bits in Inkscape?

There's been work on adding Dublin Core metadata support to Inkscape, for its next release.

The need for the metadata support is entirely practical in this case: the Open Clip Art Library requires all SVG submissions have proper metadata embedded, to ensure licensing and authorship correctness. Also, there is an SVG Clip Art Browser that uses the metadata info for its display.

One interesting observation that's come up recently and is being discussed on the lists is what happens when you embed several pieces of clipart into a larger document, how do you access the RDF of the individual bits in Inkscape?