Comments on: Open Clip Art Library Release 0.19 Announcement and OCAL10K Goal Exceeeded

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:07:27 +0000

First I am so NOT a graphics/computer saavvy professional that knows what half of the site talks about…but I saw the comments/quesion box and thought i might ask for helP:)
I am looking for a small vector graphics clip art library that I can have
linked to my new website that is going up soon. It is online designing of plaques and awards. And I want to have a small/simple clipart library for user to access if they don’t have any artwork(logo, images, etc.) to upload. I want to have a webpage link that has categories and then I would like to choose which cliparts to list. I have been searching the net…but I am not sure where to go…i just stumbled on this site….any suggestions.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:30:46 +0000

Absolutely!!!

By: Rygle

Rygle — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:36:27 +0000

Great work guys. Definitely looking forward to rendered thumbnails for the site. I think that will increase the usability rating of the site by about a billion percent.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:27:27 +0000

Thanks Peder for the comments. We had to move forward and get this package out. Its been delayed forever! And, we have a new approach. We are open to more ways to doing this, but haven’t had time to architect it. We always need help

Thanks Mymix! We will keep doing more to make this more usable. At some point soon the package is going to be too big and we will need to make a scaled back package IMO.

By: mymix

mymix — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:45:09 +0000

Actually, I think organizing by artist is cool – because most of the artists have a specific style – and would not necessary match with each other ; if you have seen a good looking clipart, chance are it fits within a collection the same artist have made.

I also like the html files – with preview – that’s a nice new feature

big kudos for the ocal 0.19 – it’s brilliant !

By: Peder

Peder — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:13:51 +0000

One really bad thing, compared to the 0.18 release, is that the tarball/zip isn’t organised in categories but in the name of the creator.
So, if I want to import all computer related cliparts into an OpenOffice.org theme called “Computers” I have to wade through all the 12337 files and select them one by one.
I appreciate the fine work of the OpenCliparts community but this is really a bad decision that prevents me from using the 0.19 release.