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#1 2010-08-10 20:39:01

ABL

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Registered: 2010-03-08

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Copy/Paste Images Into Write?

I fear that what we need cannot be done, but I thought I’d ask.
How would I paste an image into an article in Write?
That is, I am posting something that I receive as a Word doc with pictures in it. If I copy and paste the article, the images appear as broken links.

Is there a way around this? The writers and editors don’t have access to the image files as jpegs or gifs.

Thanks!

#2 2010-08-10 23:16:08

maverick

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From: Southeastern Michigan, USA

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Re: Copy/Paste Images Into Write?

Sorry to confirm your fear. Unless there’s a highly guarded secret way to c/p pictures in txp, known only to a secret inner circle, :)

you are out of luck. :/

You have to upload the pictures using either the image tab or ftp. Then you have to connect the article to the image on the Write tab. There are plugins to help ease that part.

Last edited by maverick (2010-08-10 23:20:02)

#3 2010-08-10 23:43:04

maniqui

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Re: Copy/Paste Images Into Write?

So, you need to extract the images from the Word, but copy/pasting them into TXP’s Write tab textarea doesn’t work, correct? Well, that’s expected. On a “simple” textarea you can’t copy/paste images.

But if I read correctly, your main concern right now is how to extract the images from the Word document, correct?
If so, you may want to try by re-saving the Word document as HTML. That usually create a bunch of files & folders, and then, the images are saved somewhere in those folders.
Once you extracted them from the Word doc, you can do as maverick suggests above: upload them to TXP via the “Content -> Images” tab, and include them from your article using tags like <txp:image id="XX" />, or Textile (, !imageurl!, you can practice here: http://textile.thresholdstate.com/) or even just plain old HTML (<img src="path/to/image.ext" />.

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#4 2010-08-10 23:53:14

ABL

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Registered: 2010-03-08

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Re: Copy/Paste Images Into Write?

maniqui,
Brilliant! Thank you. I hadn’t considered that.

Thanks, again!