Clip Art gallery for Mac
Carlson Communications
art gallery for the Macintosh? When I try to download something now I get an
extension of cil, which my mac doesn't recognize.
Thanks.
Susan
Jim Gordon
If you have PowerPoint 2001 the Clip Gallery should work automatically to
put clips into the gallery.
For all versions you will find clip art from Microsoft here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/design/creative/mmgallry.asp
The clips from this site won't automatically populate the clip gallery.
You'll have to use the import feature if you want to put these into the
gallery.
-Jim Gordon
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In article <B715CCC6.A2C%carl...@ma.ultranet.com>, Carlson Communications
Carlson Communications
PowerPoint 98 (shortly going to upgrade to 2001) and I want to use some clip
art from Microsoft's Design Gallery Live accessed from their website. But
when I download any of the graphics they all arrive with a .cil extension
that is not recognizable by any of the applications (ie Photoshop,
Illustrator, Freehand) on my Mac. I have been to the website you suggested
and those graphics seem to be only backgrounds, sounds and web items. I'm
actually looking for simple illustrations to emphasize points in a
presentation.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Susan
Steve Rindsberg
> when I download any of the graphics they all arrive with a .cil extension
> that is not recognizable by any of the applications (ie Photoshop,
> Illustrator, Freehand) on my Mac.
Right. As designed. But have you tried Jim's suggestion and attempted to
import them into the clip gallery? That's the application that recognizes
them. Or should.
Carlson Communications
I tried to download the item I needed to my desktop but got a message that I
needed to either A) choose a helper application B) choose a plug-in or C)
save file to disk as. So, I have tried a myriad of different helper
applications, plug-ins and extensions, etc. But when I try to import the
resulting file into the clip gallery they are still not recognizable. I did
get one of them to "open" (ha ha) in Freehand and as an IE document but what
I saw was just lines of dingbat type. I've even tried placing them directly
into my PowerPoint presentation (that's a nono). Nothing seems to work. I've
all but given up on Microsoft's Design Gallery and gone to another clipart
sight.
The website that Jim suggested works just fine. I can download those images
(limited though they may be) and import them into the clip gallery and then
place them into my presentation. My problem lies with the Design Gallery.
> From: "Steve Rindsberg" <drop...@rathole.nul>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.powerpoint.mac
> Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:14:45 -0400
> Subject: Re: Clip Art gallery for Mac
>
Tom Stiller
Carlson Communications <carl...@ma.ultranet.com> wrote:
>Steve,
>
>I tried to download the item I needed to my desktop but got a message that I
>needed to either A) choose a helper application B) choose a plug-in or C)
>save file to disk as. So, I have tried a myriad of different helper
>applications, plug-ins and extensions, etc. But when I try to import the
>resulting file into the clip gallery they are still not recognizable. I did
>get one of them to "open" (ha ha) in Freehand and as an IE document but what
>I saw was just lines of dingbat type. I've even tried placing them directly
>into my PowerPoint presentation (that's a nono). Nothing seems to work. I've
>all but given up on Microsoft's Design Gallery and gone to another clipart
>sight.
>
>The website that Jim suggested works just fine. I can download those images
>(limited though they may be) and import them into the clip gallery and then
>place them into my presentation. My problem lies with the Design Gallery.
>
Following the instructions in PowerPoint's help section, I was able to
import the '.cil' file(s) downloaded from Microsoft's Design Gallery.
Once you have selected 'Insert Clipart' and 'Import', you have to select
'Clip Gallery Live Files' from the 'Show' popup menu.
>> From: "Steve Rindsberg" <drop...@rathole.nul>
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.powerpoint.mac
>> Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:14:45 -0400
>> Subject: Re: Clip Art gallery for Mac
>>
>>> art from Microsoft's Design Gallery Live accessed from their website. But
>>> when I download any of the graphics they all arrive with a .cil extension
>>> that is not recognizable by any of the applications (ie Photoshop,
>>> Illustrator, Freehand) on my Mac.
>>
>> Right. As designed. But have you tried Jim's suggestion and attempted to
>> import them into the clip gallery? That's the application that recognizes
>> them. Or should.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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Kedamono
Communications <carl...@ma.ultranet.com> wrote:
> I'm using
> PowerPoint 98 (shortly going to upgrade to 2001) and I want to use some
> clip
> art from Microsoft's Design Gallery Live accessed from their website. But
> when I download any of the graphics they all arrive with a .cil extension
> that is not recognizable by any of the applications (ie Photoshop,
> Illustrator, Freehand) on my Mac.
Susan, there's not much you can do. Only Clip Gallery 5.0 for the
Macintosh can read the CIL format. It comes with Office 2001, so
upgrading is a good idea, you'll be able to take all those CIL files
you've downloaded and doubleclick each one and have them add themselves
to Clip Gallery 5.0.
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Steve Rindsberg
I
> needed to either A) choose a helper application B) choose a plug-in or C)
> save file to disk as.
Try C:
Then follow the earlier instrux to import it into the clip gallery.
Carlson Communications
I did try that and still it is not recognizable. However, I'm leaning toward
the response I got from Kedamono -- that there's not much I can do except to
wait until I upgrade to 2001. But thanks for all your help.
> From: "Steve Rindsberg" <drop...@rathole.nul>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.powerpoint.mac
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 07:49:26 -0400
> Subject: Re: Clip Art gallery for Mac
>
Steve Rindsberg
toward
> the response I got from Kedamono
Take everything I've suggested, add Kedamono's comments, stir well, fish out
the stuff I added to the mix and most likely you'll have gems of truth. <g>
He's the guy to pay attention to.