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Open Clip Art Library Announces 0.8 Release

Posted by timothy on from the add-scribus-and-stir dept.

jonadab writes "The Open Clip Art Library project (hosted at freedesktop.org) is announcing their first widely-publicized release, dubbed 0.8, containing over two and a half thousand unique vector images (in SVG format), sorted into categories. All of the images are released into the public domain and may be used as royalty-free clipart. You can browse the collection through the web interface or download the entire thing as a gzipped tarball. (Mirrors are welcome.) The library is also always soliciting more contributions, and holiday-themed images would be particularly appropriate this time of year. Thanks to everyone who has contributed artwork to the library already. "

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  1. Re:Nice... by DemENtoR · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try the adobe SVG viewer (also works on mac) http://www.adobe.com/svg/overview/whatsnew.html

  2. Re:Nice... by Spoing · · Score: 5, Informative
    1. I downloaded some, and I just realized I don't have any application installed to watch SVG's in my Mac. Does anyone know of a SVG viewer for Mac? And perhaps a converter? I can really use some of these images on a couple of OmniGraffle diagrams that I'm working on...

    Take a look at Inkscape in the Fink ports repository;

    1. List of ported graphics tools in Fink.

      The Fink Inkscape page (booring but functional).

    Inkscape will import or save/export a few common formats. A couple other programs in the list also handle SVG.

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  3. Re:Nice... by trendyhendy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also, there is the Java-based Batik toolkit for displaying, manipulating, and transcoding SVG images. It can be used for converting SVG images into jpegs, etc. You might want to give ImageMagick a go; I'm not sure if it supports SVG.

  4. Have you tried a nightly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Theres a link from the downloads page of inkscape to nightly windows builds, the bug may well be fixed in the cvs version. (the 0.40 release is not far off) If it still crashes I'd encourage you to file a bug, as the inkscape devs are mainly linux guys so rely on the userbase to let them know of any issues on windows.