OpenOffice.org Integration
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2006-09-20
Rather than fix their SVG issues, it appears Sun's OpenOffice project has chosen to solve their integration problem by soliciting people to send them OpenOffice-specific clipart, licensed under an Sun-only license called "Public Document License". The name of the license makes it sound like public domain, but in reality it is more of a GPL-style license. This means if you use any of the templates or clipart from this collection in a presentation for example, you put that presentation under the same license.
While encouraging open source is a good thing, it seems senseless to use clipart to force people to open source all of their business documentation, presentations, websites, and so on. It seems very scary what they're doing - how many users are going to adopt the clipart for their businesses, only to later learn that in doing so they've inadvertantly relicensed all their business docs as PDL, and are thus forced to give everyone free usage of it.
The OpenClipart Library chose to have submissions placed in public domain specifically to save users from this risk. OCAL's clipart can be used anywhere, for any purpose, with zero risk. It can even be used in OpenOffice.org!
2005-08-16
A SVG import plugin for OpenOffice 2.0 is on the horizon. For more information have a look at http://haumacher.de/svg-import/.
2005-06-22
Currently, Open Clip Art Library graphics are provided as a package with several distributions to work with Open Office, yet the format of the files is PNG, as there is a longstanding bug for OO.o that it doesn't import SVG. This will hopefully be rectified in the future so that SVGs can be included with OO.o.
Yes, that is right. I think that integrating our service into OO.o, this project will get a major propulsion forward. I do hope that we can push upstream for OO.o implementing SVG import/export (but mainly import, or opening) so that SVG can be pushed as a standard.
Daniel mentioned that OO.o has 20-30 million users now! That is crazy!
-- Main.JonPhillips - 11 Apr 2004
In addition to this, OO.o will also benefit a lot from this. A clipart gallery is a badly needed feature, as is SVG import. This project can provide a good incentive for a XSLT expert somewhere to volunteer and provide SVG import. In the mean time, OOo uses will benefit from an ever growing clipart gallery.
In the mean time, I will be working on a program to help users install this clipart into the OOo clipart gallery. It will be some time before I have something functional (I just started this a few days ago). I will try to maintain an updated screenshot of the app. Keep in mind that this is just a GUI. It doesn't _do_ anything yet.
-- Main.DanielCarrera - 11 Apr 2004
Would it be best to include an svg to png library in your tool Daniel as the SVG package is likely to be smaller than an equivalent of pngs. (it might also reduce the requirements on this project in the short term).
-- Main.DavidIllsley - 11 Apr 2004
Not really. Quite honestly, that is beyond my programming skill. Even if it were feasible for me, it would be more work than I could commit. I am using the Mozilla platform for this, which makes it a lot easier to make a cross-platform application, as long as I stay within what is provided by Mozilla.
On the other hand, providing PNGs is not very difficult for this project. The process can be automated by a shell script executing either `inkscape -e myfile.png myfile.svg` or 'convert' from ImageMagick.
-- Main.DanielCarrera - 11 Apr 2004
automated conversion from SVG to PNG can be done with this script (for all SVG files in a directory):
for i in *.svg; do inkscape -f "$i" -e "$i.png"; done
-- Main.NicuBuculei - 14 Apr 2004
