Open Clip Art Library Import/Export in Inkscape!

Yes, this is true…let the floodgates open! Andy had some nice screengrabs of the future :) This new functionality, developed by Google Summer of Code student, Bruno Dilly, will be in the upcoming Inkscape 0.46 release…bring it on sooner rather than later! Let your favorite Inkscape developers know you want 0.46 out sooner rather than later :)

Let the flood of remixing begin!

openclipart - import and remix2

openclipart - import and remix

Now, I start to question why even store anything on your hard drive?

Hopefully though, this will bring on many new levels of users and developers to Open Clip Art Library. We need many developers to help with the system, which is now running on the rock-solid OSUOSL.org infrastructure. Bring on the content!

13 Responses to “Open Clip Art Library Import/Export in Inkscape!”


  1. 1 Greg Bulmash

    “Now, I start to question why even store anything on your hard drive?”

    Because the OCAL went offline for 2.5 months, and even with the “rock solid OSUOSL.org infrastructure”, nothing is foolproof, and because OSUOSL offered OCAL hosting a week or two after it went down, but took months to actually get that hosting online and stabilized.

    That’s why *I* store things on my hard drive… and on a backup hard drive… and on some offsite storage if the stuff is important…

    -G

  2. 2 jon

    Gee, you sure are positive…makes me *really* want to work harder on openclipartlibrary… :(

  3. 3 Joseph

    Excellent! This is one of the things my wife misses greatly when she uses Linux–Microsoft products generally link to an online (Microsoft) website where you can download clipart, templates, etc.

    So, the question remains: when will we leverage our userbase and have seamless *upload* of content to OpenClipart? :)

  4. 4 Benji Park

    Well Joseph, not having tried the plugin yet, I believe the Export part of the plugin handles uploading to OpenClipart.

  5. 5 jon

    Yes, this is true…it does handle upload, but we need to test out the webdav patch to cchost…yeah!

  6. 6 Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves

    Ah, finally. I requested that feature last year. Hey, better later than never.

  7. 7 Lion Kimbro

    I’m so excited! I’ve been begging Bryce for this feature, for years!

  8. 8 jon

    Brilliant!!!

  9. 9 stelt

    /me doesn’t like “2005″ on http://openclipart.org/media/downloads , will that change soon please?

    Though the ocal site is back, the ‘font version’ has disappeared :-(

  10. 10 jon

    Stelt, it will change if you help it to change. Yes, there have been some trials and tribulation. But whose to blame? All of us! We need people to help and resources to keep things updated.

  11. 11 Greg DeK

    So… where is this code? Is it somewhere in the Inkscape public svn tree? Because if it is, I sure haven’t been able to find it.

  12. 12 jon

    Ok, in the public svn tree in the /src directory, the code touches these files:

    ./menus-skeleton.h
    ./ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.h
    ./ui/dialog/ocaldialogs.cpp
    ./verbs.cpp
    ./file.cpp

    With most of the code being in the file.cpp and ocaldialogs.{h,cpp}

    What are you hoping to do with it?

  13. 13 matt

    Hi,
    I built the latest svn revision today (https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk r16600) but couldn’t find the feature… Do I have to enable it somewhere?

    The only thing I do find is the setting of the server and login at openclipart.org

    Anyway, thanks for working on that feature!

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