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[Sonja Teague]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 07:29, Andrew McMillan wrote:
[...]
> My suggestion would be to crank up Inkscape and design some pretty
> borders, then crank up OpenOffice Writer and make some templates
> that everyone who wants pretty borders can use.

Thanks for the clue. The beauty of P*blisher's unique (?) Border-Art 
feature is it's linear scalability, motifs are automatically added or 
subtracted to suit the frame size, plus it can be customised to a 
degree.

> As far as I can see there is nothing in OpenOffice that is stopping
> you having pretty borders other than the fact that nobody has
> created them, or nobody has built the templates.
> 
> In fact someone may well have created the borders themselves - take
> a look at the amazing range of free open-source clipart available
> from openclipart.org

I have previously installed the extensive collection of OpenOffice.org 
clipart and there is nothing equivalent. A look through your 
suggestion drew a blank, a good source of clipart though.

[...]
> They are requestable, apparently.  I requested about a hundred
> extras of Dapper to stick in the foyer here at Catalyst recently
> and they got delivered fairly quickly.  They also seem to disappear
> remarkably quickly too!

Answered in a fresh thread.

Bye... Sonja