cataloguing clipart

Hi

A couple of possabilities as I not seen a dedicated clipart manager apart from the Microsoft one,

FotoArchive is free and should to what you want, it is basic though.

XNView, while more of an image manager and editor, it can allow you to tag chipart per catagory so can be searchable easy enough, as well as allowing you to produce a contact sheet style printout of your clipart collection for a hard copy reference.


Naming systems for clipart files are varied, can be GIF, WMF and JPEG.

 

Hi


Think clipart naming convention is a random thing depending on what site either developed the clipart or as in some sites they copy other sites art then rename them, had alook at a few and local on my PC, MS Publisher clipart is named with an Axxxxxxx, MS Office online clipart downloads are jxxxxxxx, to various sites using numerical codes, to alpha/numerical to using real names for the art, as in "laptop.jpg" and "pencil40.jpg" etc

So would be hard to nail a specific naming convention, which is why I suggested tagging the files and could do that by genre of art for easy searching, also if you collect in say seperate folders temporarally the art per type/genre you could batch rename them into your own naming convention, XNView allows batch rename of files*



*do use a copy of the files to batch reame opposed to the originals in case they dont rename as you want.