Google Apps soon to have drawing and clipart capability
- TAGS:clipart, drawing, Google Apps
- IT TOPICS:Cloud Computing, Devices, Enterprise Apps, Networking
As Google innovates Apps at break neck speed, it needs to take on some of the non-core Office functionality. One such capability that Google doesn't yet have is clipart and drawing capabilities that exist in Microsoft Office. Tony Ruscoe at Blogscoped found some interesting code in some of the Google Docs that seem to not only indicate that drawing will be a future functionality of Google Docs, but that it will have the same type of automatic versioning as well.
Using the following URLs, I was able to view different versions of a Google Docs drawing by adjusting the
revparameter to see various revisions, and thewandhparameters to adjust the width and height of the image on the fly (I’m not entirely sure what theacparameter is for yet – perhaps “auto-crop” as it seems to remove the white-space from around the drawing):
docs.google.com/drawings/image?id=5c605&w=267&h=267&rev=2&ac=1
docs.google.com/drawings/image?id=5c605&w=267&h=267&rev=3&ac=1
docs.google.com/drawings/image?id=5c605&w=150&h=150&rev=3&ac=1
docs.google.com/drawings/image?id=5c605&w=267&h=267
It still isn't clear what this image is doing here, and as of this writing, it was taken down from Google's site.
However, you can see the versioning and the changes over time. Will we soon have the capability to add/edit/create our own clipart into Docs? It is only a matter of time.
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