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I am using IMCE and TinyMCE. It works okay, but I have to manually edit the inline image sizes and place horiz/vert spaces.
What I'd like:
When using the TinyMCE editor and placing the inline image, I'd like to have the image (if it's larger) to be rescaled (automatically), maintaining the aspect ratio, to 320 pixels wide and adding horizontal and vertical spacing (automatically) to 10. The only option I want the user to control is entering the path to the image and whether it floats to the left/right/etc. If at all possible, I would also prefer that the original image is resized (if larger) to 1024 pixels wide (maintaining aspect ratio).
Users viewing the post should be able to click on the image and it will open a popup showing the original image size. I think I had a site working like this before with Drupal 5 but I can't remember the modules I used.
I have my own local server hosting this so I have complete access to everything: PhP, Apache, MySQL, etc. I have img_assist disabled now because it doesn't work correctly. It pops up a window with two frames, the top frame is only about 5-10 pixels high and you can't see the buttons and you can't resize the frames.
Please help if you know what modules I need and how to configure them.
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http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode29
Wow, you are fast. I will
Wow, you are fast. I will check that out and let you know. And thanks for the help in my other threads.
Well, I followed that video
Well, I followed that video precisely up to the point where he shows how to manipulate images in a page. This is at about 5:45 into the video. His display has an image browse/upload window which I don't have. I've tried different themes and all I get is an ugly button below the body labeled "Choose File". Is this theme-dependent?
When I click "Choose File", I get a file browser, then click "Upload" and all I get is the file name next to the "Choose File" button with a generic image placeholder. I do not get the image in a window like the tutorial. There is a "Send to text area" button now and when it's clicked, it puts the full-sized image into the body, but you can't manipulate it. There are no options as to what size you wish to insert it, nor or there any drag boxes on the image corners to dynamically resize it. It's basically fixed at the full size.
Also, even the text in the body gets reformatted now (that part worked fine before). All the line breaks have disappeared and the text is all bunched together. everything in the editor window looks right but when you preview or save, it's messed up. I've looked at the "Remove Line Breaks" option in the TinyMCE configuration and it makes no difference whether this is on or off.
This is becoming a real pain. I have spent the entire weekend working on this one thing.
Ugh!
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I don't use editors. In the video rob is using fckeditor. Not sure if the issue lies there or not but worth checking into.
The only other thing I can think to look into is imagecache but again, I don't know how/if it integrates with an editor.
This is really making me
This is really making me consider a different platform, but I'd like to keep Drupal if I can fix this.
I fixed the plain text formatting problem. Seems the HTML tags had been removed by some module for some reason, so I added them back to the allowed tags.
1) I followed another tutorial for images and have gotten farther. Now I can click "Browse", then "Upload", and I get a thumbnail of my image next to a button labeled "Copy to body". This inserts the image into the body and it is resized by my standards. When clicked on, the image opens into the browser at original size, but it steals the browser window. I prefer a popup or at least another tabbed page.
2) After uploading an image, the thumbnail stays and you can't upload another image unless you manually click "Remove", then go through the process again. I see no benefit of this; It should clear after each upload so you can upload more images.
3) After uploading about two small images, and trying to do a third, it will remove another image you already pasted. It leaves a broken image placeholder there, but the image doesn't display. I've checked the upload folder for the images and sure enough, it doesn't upload them all. These images are only about 100 KB and my PhP limit is 10 MB per file and the Drupal restrictions are set to "unrestricted".
Wow! thanks, TE5LA!
I'm a happier camper now, thanks to me. I finally solved the problem of only one image posting on a page. Someone else is bound to run across this problem. Here's the solution:
Go to:
--> Administer
----> Content Types
------> Manage Fields (of the concerned content type)
---------> Configure (for the image node)
Scroll down near the end to the option Number of values. It defaults to only 1, meaning you can post only one image. Change the value.
"Wow! Thanks for that info, TE5LA!"
"Hey, you're welcome, TE5LA."