Pictures in posts and font sizes.

Looks like there is no hope of my being able to use Windows 7 to paste / import an image into a post!

Can JUST manage to paste / import (whatever the term is ) to put an image into an Album.

No wonder we dinosaurs became extinct!

Howard

Howard - this is by way of an experiment as I no longer have Win 7 but it "should" work with any screen text or image. I wont know until I press "Post a reply" and see it !!!

1. I opened a blank "Post a reply"
2. I held down the right mouse button whilst dragging the cursor over the text in your letter above.
3. Then released the right mouse button and moved the cursor to the blank "post a reply".
4. Then, I used the standard Windows command of Ctrl + V [which means "paste"]
5. The captured text from your post then appeared.
6. In the top right corner there was a red arrow. Clicking on this created space above the copied text which is where I am typing this.

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Edited By Fowlers Fury on 19/03/2021 16:36:00

Thanks,

I must make a note of that!

Now to send it a friend (Me ) so that I can keep it safe.

Just Saved as WORD .doc

Howard

Edited By Howard Lewis on 19/03/2021 16:54:11

Couple of points about Fowler's cut and paste example:

• FF hasn't pasted an image, just text. As far as I know you can't meaningfully paste an image into this forum's web editor with ctrl-v. Instead, it's necessary to use the Image button, which inserts a link to an image hosted on another website, or the Camera button, which inserts a link to a picture in the Forum Album. The best ctrl-v will do is to create a link to the image on your home computer, and - unless it's been set up as a web-server - no-one can read the file.
• Actually FF's paste isn't 'just text', it copies the full HTML, which is why the formatting has gone wrong.

I'm hoping the forthcoming forum upgrade will support image pasting with ctrl-v in a natural way. Time will tell!

Dave

Dave's bullet point 1 has prompted some investigation which has confirmed his thesis.
I selected a b&w image of a loco from my files and pasted it into the blank posting space.
Pressing <Add posting> brought up the message "xxxxx characters too many, spilt into different postings" or words to that effect.
The image was progressively reduced in size and dpi until it was just 55Kb and that message still came up though with a different value for the "excess" characters. I tried it in various file types (jpg, png, pdf etc) but no joy.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

The code to download imagemajick is 10 words. The code to change the image format is 5 words. The OP's post above is 50 words. What long winded faff?

Actually getting a JPEG image off your computer and into a post on this site is currently a much bigger "Faff"

Good luck and have fun!

As I said, Anthony, I'll leave it until the software on here is updated. I did briefly try imagemagick as I said earlier, but got nowhere - one reason is that using images with Linux on this laptop has problems, other is there are reasons due to how my brain works which I won't go into.

That brought the Linux users out , I have been one for over 15 now .

There are none so blind as those who don't want to hear ? ? ? Think I got that quote wrong ? ? ? lol