Open clipart project (Was: Re: Transition to Linux complete)

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 06:53 am, Lee Einer wrote:
> Do you still have MS loaded on any box?

Yes. The box she uses dual boots still. (GRUB defaults to Linux!)

> Perhaps the easiest thing would be to scavenge the clipart from your MS
> box, and add it to the OpenOffice gallery.

That is something that would work. I just didn't check if OpenOffice.org
could read WMF formatted files. I'll have to check.

> Just open the gallery under OO Writer (or any other OO app) and click on
> "new theme." This will allow you to create a new theme and add files to
> it. Those files could be the bitmap files you scavenged from your MS
> box. Assuming that your MS program was legally purchased, etc, I
> wouldn't want to advocate anything illegal.

This may be a good solution. Thanks. And, yes, the clipart was purchased,
all 10+ CDs of them. (Scrapbooking is almost as expensive as a computer
hobby.)

Alan