abiword_clipart 2.2.7.2 - A collection of clip art optimized for AbiWord

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Mel said:
7-Zip fully supports BZip2 files. BZip2 module in 7-Zip is based
on sources of original program that supports bz2 files - bzip2.
The home page of original bzip2 can be found at
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk.

The extraction leads to a single file of 75 438 080 bytes.
I guess this png clipart archive only works with abiword and doesn't
actually contain bunches of individual .png files, as some of us
expected.
 
The extraction leads to a single file of 75 438 080 bytes.
I guess this png clipart archive only works with abiword and doesn't
actually contain bunches of individual .png files, as some of us
expected.

At least not until you extract them from the resulting:

abiword_clipart-2.2.7-2.tar

I found that AbiWord had quite a little bit of trouble printing
various image formats, and simply stalled out when there was
transparency involved. I had the latest stable Imagemagick installed,
librsvg-2.9.5, Gimp and all image libraries I could think of...

However, when using "flattened" PNG
files, AbiWord printed great. As a matter of fact, it would
scale even lineart wonderfully for printing. That is to say,
even single-pixel lines, resized way down, would still
look like clean, single-pixel lines. (As if editing an SVG.)

Hence, it seemed worthwhile to make a collection of clipart,
consisting of non-transparent PNGs. I scoured the Web looking
for Public Domain clipart and found OpenClipart.org and
others -- making sure the images were all Public Domain.

The PNGs in OpenClipart were not of suitable quality, so I
used rsvg to convert the original SVGs to PNGs, flattened them,
then sorted them. I also did a lot of cropping and resizing
suitable for a word-processor rather than an image-editing program.

I collected much more clipart from several other sources,
making sure, as much as I could, that all images were in
the Public Domain (see DISCLAIMER.) I used nothing that I had any
reason whatsoever to doubt were PD.

If you feel the collection is worthwhile and want to help
with submissions, ideas for changes/guidelines... anything,
then contact me at:
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.pcbypaul.com
 
Okay, so how does one open a tar.bz2 file ?

Open with 7zip. You need to run it twice. Extract once will leave
you with a tar file (*.tar), extract again will give full contents.

Gordon
 
Open with 7zip. You need to run it twice. Extract once will leave
you with a tar file (*.tar), extract again will give full contents.

Gordon

Thanks for keeping your eyes up on this one!
These files really enhance the usefulness of AbiWord.
 
On Sun, 08 May 2005 21:55:53 +0200, JP Loken wrote:

Thanks for keeping your eyes up on this one!
These files really enhance the usefulness of AbiWord.

Hope he keeps developing this.

It would be nice if it merged or cooperated with OpenClipart
<http://www.openclipart.org/>.
Say, one project with three branches.
1) Main branch with clip art collection (for use anywhere)
2) OpenOffice.org branch with installer for OpenOffice.org
3) AbiWord branch with installer with AbiWord

There are duplications and name clashes between the two collections.

Most freeware & open source word processor/office suites can't compete
with MS Office's quantity & quality of clip art.

Same, of course, is true of templates but that's another story!!

Regards
Gordon
 
Open with 7zip. You need to run it twice. Extract once will leave
you with a tar file (*.tar), extract again will give full
contents.

You can also use TUGZip, which does both passes by default (keeps
extracting).
 

I've extracted this archive using 7zip and TUGzip (Win98se) and the
results are the same. That is: A number of the files show up as blank.
Their filenames are there and double-clicking them, a window opens at
the file's window dimensions. But the image is a blank white space.

The MD5SUM checks out OK on the archive I DL'd.

Example:

In Animals; frog1.png, frog2.png, frog3.png, rabbit_fun.png,
squirel3.png, squirel4.png, squirel_fun.png, squirrel.png, turtle.png,
turtle1.png - all show as blank white space. The remaining files in
this directory are fine.

This carries on throughout the archive, not all but *most* folders
carry blanks. The directory named Cartoons is particularly bad.

Anyone else get this, or is it just me?
 
I've extracted this archive using 7zip and TUGzip (Win98se) and
the results are the same. That is: A number of the files show up
as blank. Their filenames are there and double-clicking them, a
window opens at the file's window dimensions. But the image is a
blank white space.

The MD5SUM checks out OK on the archive I DL'd.

Example:

In Animals; frog1.png, frog2.png, frog3.png, rabbit_fun.png,
squirel3.png, squirel4.png, squirel_fun.png, squirrel.png,
turtle.png, turtle1.png - all show as blank white space. The
remaining files in this directory are fine.

This carries on throughout the archive, not all but *most* folders
carry blanks. The directory named Cartoons is particularly bad.

Anyone else get this, or is it just me?

It was the image browser I was using (Thumbs+) For some reason it can't
deal with some of the images, They open up fine in PS Pro.

Sorry about the previous post.
 
It was the image browser I was using (Thumbs+) For some reason it can't
deal with some of the images, They open up fine in PS Pro.

Sorry about the previous post.

Glad you got it sorted.

Gordon
 
On Sun, 08 May 2005 00:06:26 +1000, John Fitzsimons wrote:
Open with 7zip. You need to run it twice. Extract once will leave
you with a tar file (*.tar), extract again will give full contents.

I guess I would have worked that out but thank you for bringing it to
my attention. :-)

Regards, John.
 
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