Re: [libreoffice-users] computer & network pictures

On 05/16/2013 05:49 AM, HdV wrote:
> On 2013-05-16 09:11:03 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My collegues asked me to draw a network & server topology.
> > They would like more "sexy" pictucres than rectangles and circles:
> >
> > Would you have a Drawing template to have nice "computer & network
> > pictures"?
> >
> > Example:
> > http://www.fr3d.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/network-current.png
> You can use any picture you want. What I do is add all pictures I like for a
> specific topic to a Draw file and add gluepoints to them. From that file I select
> the image I need and copy it to the file I am working on. If you add the
> gluepoints wisely, then you can resize and reposition the image and the
> connectors will just follow it. You can even define what direction the
> connectors should prefer. To bad Draw won't allow you to do this in a more
> elegant way, but for me using template file works OK.
>
> P.S. I would advise you to make your images transparent before copying them to
> the template file. That way you can use them on any background in future use.
>
> P.P.S. Search the intenet for Visio stencils or other image collections you
> like. I don't have a URL handy right now, but Googling for "Cisco Systems
> Corporate Iconography" will point you in the right direction.
>
> HTH
>
> Grx HdV

To be honest, there are a lot of free clipart sites out there that has 
free computer and network related pictures/graphics.  I have not looked 
for these in a few years, but I had to do a project like your image and 
found all I needed on those free clipart sites.





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