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by lizzy 1 view

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I have a Win2KPro workstation that I have downloaded and installed lots of clip art onto. I use MS Office XP, Clip Art Organizer 2002. Other staff and students use mostly Win98 and Office 97. The network is a Windows 2000 domain. How can I share myclip art with them? How can I easily export all of it to a CD-R? Thanks in advance for your help!

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by alpha-male

The solution I would employ would be to create a network share called "Clip Art" and have a logon script map it for the students. Ideally, you should break the clipart up into categories to assist with accessing it. I am particularly fond of the Corel Clipart for its organization and the added benefit of a book that shows the artwork listed alphabetically by category. You may want to consider creating such an index if you use clipart extensively.

If you want to create a CD-R, I would go through and meticulously organize your files. Then, simply burn them to a CD and mark it by date. You can created updated CDs periodically to distribute as needed.

I think that the network share is a better overall solution though - it will be current and identical for all. I'd recommend creating a group "Clip Art Users", "Web Design" or "Graphics Students" etc. (whatever is appropriate) and assign the students to the group. Grant the group permissions to the folders as required.

This is how we managed our graphics images (and fonts for that matter) when I worked in the Graphic Design Industry.

I hope this helps!

by alpha-male

Ah, I see....

Here is a very extensive listing (probably more than you need but it includes a lot and is worth a look. It also covers video, etc)

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/

The formats you will likely need to pay attention to are: JPG, GIF, BMP, TIF, WMF, EPS, CDR, PCD, PSD, TGA for graphics (in a rough order of importance). MP3, MOV, AVI, QT, WAV, RA, MID, RAM are the most common Multi-media extensions.

For the actual MS Office clipart, it will be in a CIL format or, if it's Office XP, MPF. The CIL files are - I believe - compressed WMF files (Windows Metafiles).

Hope this helps. If I can help further, just let me know. Feel free to e-mail me...

by alpha-male

Here's another thought, you could share a CD-Rom Drive and put the Office XP Media Disk (disk 2) in there so it could be accessible. I don't know what MS' licensing and "fair use" issues are with the clipart...

On earlier versions of office (97 etc), there is a setup.exe file in the clipart folder on the CD that you can use to install the clipart to the standard or a custom location.

by lizzy

Thank you! This helped me very much! I wish the MS Clip Organizer were more easy to use than it is...

by lizzy

Hi Alpha,
Unfortunately, I cannot dictate domain user groups and scripts in this building until I get a new server installed (planning stages for student accounts only) and that has been put on hold due to sorry state of the budget--but that's another story!

Please expound further on the types of files that I will find. I have clip art, photos, movies, and sounds. (.wmf, .wav, etc.)

I'm sorry, but this is all new to me--I am usually dealing with blind users where this stuff would not besomething that they would use. Now there are low vision PC users that are doing Power Point and Print Shop 10 by Broderbund. Some clip art is used in Word.

I was really hoping for an import\export wizard that could simplify this task! ;-)

by vinnyd

Your clip art may be in few different folders.

Look under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office

For folders called Media.

I found 2 media folders under my Office XP install.

One had music files and the other had GIF, WMF and JPEG files.

All you need to do is copy them to a CD-R.

by lizzy

Thank you for the answer Vinny, but I was looking for a little more detail than this. I know how to create CD-R's and I know where most files are located. I wanted a listing of clip art extensions and hoped for a clip art organizer that was more user friendly than the MS Clip Art Organizer--it's really not that easy to manipulate.

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