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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.