WPClipart is a collection of high-quality, Public Domain images tailored for use in word processors and output on inkjet printers. The entire collection is included in the WPClipart download (although the website is more frequently updated, and has a search function atop every page.) The WPClipart website is: http://www.wpclipart.com WPClipart-7.0 Contains 22,313 non-transparent PNG images. The full package contains all the clipart along with the viewer/editor application. (This application is useful, but is NOT necessary in order to use the clipart, as the images are all in standard PNG format.) There are also packs of clip art categories, downloadable with the viewer and packed in a Windows installer. The viewer/editor also has a stand-alone installer. And finally, individual zip archives of each and every category are also available for download. Terms of Use These images are public domain, and that means they can be used and edited for whatever purpose you wish, personal or commercial. No attribution or linking is required. the sources for all the images are listed on the WPClipart legal page http://www.wpclipart/legal.html. There is only one modest exceptions to being able to do anything at all with any of the images . . . --- Minor Exception -------- My website is mine. I do not expect anyone to copy my site or the image collection (in large part) to host online or sell. This would compete with my site, draining what revenue I generate through online ads. These pay for hosting and modestly compensate me all the ink I use in test printing and for the hundreds of hours I spend finding, creating and editing images. That said, if you wish to include the collection within a GPL-ed Linux distribution or create a package for that distribution, you are more than welcome to do so. I am a big proponent of Open Source and originally created a modest version of the collection for my kids to use on Linux with AbiWord. To be able to devote time to the project I need the site to generate some revenue -- but first and foremost, the clipart was made as a resource for school kids and others to use without fear of copyright infringement and the risk of running into all sorts of "untoward" pictures when searching the web for graphics. I'd like to keep it that way. If any school wishes to place the collection on a common server for use within the school or district -- it would be my honour for you to use the project in such a way. [VIEWER/EDITOR] WP Clipper (c)2005-2008 by Paul Sherman Distributed under the GNU GPL version 3 WP Clipper is a cross-platform, hybrid image viewer and image editing program. It was designed specifically with WPClipart in mind, but it can be used to view/edit almost any clipart or photograph. It can accomplish several simple transforms (tilt/rotate) and has several filters as well as color/brightness tweaking abilities.It can then re-save the image in PNG or JPG format or copy to the clipboard for immediate pasting into another program. It can paste into OpenOffice, AbiWord, Windows Word and WordPad. (So you can view images easily and paste them, with some quick change, directly into your word-processing application. [INSTALLATION] FOR WINDOWS: ------------ I distribute binaries for Windows, tested on 2000 and XP. (So you don't even need Python to run it on Windows.) Run the program "wpclipper", ...or browse the WPClipart directoty tree. FOR LINUX: ---------- Use the source for Linux. For ease of use with the clipart collection, place the wpclipper.py script in the wpclipart-x.x/viewer folder. In that way the viewer will open with the first directory listedcontaining the clipart. Make sure the wpclipper.py is set as executable. Look for WPClipper or WPClipart on my website: http://www.wpclipart.com If you use the source version you will need to have python >= 2.5 pyGTK >= 2.10 PIL >= 1.1.6 (Python Imaging Library) [Program background...] It was initially developed on Linux for my kids to use in conjunction with AbiWord (which they used on Windows machines in their middle school.) There were two reasons I made the collection and program: 1] I was uncomfortable with the kids doing image searches online. (See the site information below...) 2] Linux did not have a little viewer/editor program that could copy and paste into AbiWord. Also, for ease of use I wanted the speed and simplicity of a viewer, but with some quick and easy editing for basic things like rotation, some color/contrast adjustments and for fun a few filters. The program was first written using the wxWindows GUI toolkit, as it was then needed for proper clipboard functionality... but updates to pyGTK have made the use of that toolkit possible, and has made the overall software requirements for the program leaner, able to be used on computers with slightly older hardware and in most cases able to run without installing additional dependencies -- as python-gtk is a much more commonly installed development library. It is also available on the OLPC machines. Making the program/collection available to OLPC machines, as well as many commodity PCs in use for education, fits precisely with the goals of WPClipart. [Clipart Site background...] The project started as a "safe" collection of clipart for my kids. Their middle school used AbiWord, and they were often searching for clipart that was both safe and copyright-free. Since this proved to be both difficult and hazardous (since image searches often yielded some very untoward photos) I decided to create a simple collection for their use. My background as both a photographer and a programmer lent itself well to the project, I put it online with my software for others to download and as the months passed it became very popular. I made thumbnail pages and put up some Google ads, (made a bit of change every day), then suddenly the Google image search engine spidered the site and my server was a bit overwhelmed. After fielding 20-30k hits a day for a year or so I ended up putting the collection on a dedicated remote server, and the ad revenue takes care of the expense. And by using good image tagging and submitting XML sitemaps to Google with each update, the custom search function really helps track images down. Regarding possible errors in PD status Wpclipart.com respects the intellectual property rights of others, and I ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied and is accessible on the wpclipart.com web site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send a notice providing the following information: 1. The electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on the owner's behalf; 2. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; 3. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located, such as the URL where it is posted; 4. Your name, address, telephone number and email address; 5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and 6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. Send this information to: Paul Sherman 416 Stone Road Rochester, NY 14616