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SK

Posted on January 26, 2005 1:44 PM

Attachment Module Now Working; Image Modules.... notsomuch

I've enabled the "attachments" module, so at the bottom of all of the "create content" screens, you should now see a field for uploading attachments. They can be downloaded, too! I tried it out on Em's comic, and it worked great.

Sadly, the image modules I've been trying to work with, which would allow us to upload images as actual nodes, rather than as attachments, and also to create thumbnail galleries and insert inline images into other documents and other good stuff like that, are giving me some problems. Something about paths, and Image Magick, and >mumblemumble... Um. Well. Other techno-babble of that sort.

I'll mess about with it today and see if I can get it all to work right.

#1
ecboss

Posted on February 4, 2005 8:17 AM

images working now?
Looks like you've figured it out. Excellent! How does the thingee work?

#2
ecboss

Posted on February 4, 2005 8:22 AM

aha
I see--you can put a url tag in the text that directs it to the image that you've got on your server. Maybe if I find other images I can do the same thing. Post them as attachments and let y'all down load them, then I or you can plug in the code to make them active. Let me know what works.

Cool!

#3
CS

Posted on February 4, 2005 12:04 PM

That's right...
I remember reading through the discussion of the upload module on the drupal home site, where people were complaining that the multistep method for inlining images with the upload module (create a page, upload, get the address, edit the page to include the image) was too annoying. Which is to say, possible.

#4
SK

Posted on February 4, 2005 1:35 PM

Well, I feel less clever now...
Heh. I missed that discussion somehow when I went looking for info on the image module.

What happened last night was that as I was admiring Chaz's photos, it suddenly occured to me that since they were now, y'know, uploaded to the server, they could be stuck inline anywhere, just by using HTML. So I did so, thinking myself Very Clever Indeed.

I still want to see if I can get that path to image magick thing worked out, but it's nice to know that there's another way to display images on a page in the meantime.

Does anyone know how one goes about converting PDF files to JPG or something? I was thinking that it would be swell to be able to have Em's comic visible online, as well as having the download available. Is there some way to talk Photoshop into making a conversion, or would I lose far too much image quality if I did that?

#5
Kip Manley

Posted on February 4, 2005 2:07 PM

It's easy enough.
Open it in Photoshop, which can handle .pdfs with no problem, and then do a Save for Web. You might want to size it down a bit, first.

#6
SK

Posted on February 4, 2005 3:44 PM

::puzzled::
Huh. I tried that, actually, only to be told that Photoshop "did not recognize the file type" or somesuch. Then, I know zip about Photoshop--mystifying program, can't figure it out at all, not that I've ever really tried hard mind you, as just looking at the opening screen of the thing tends to give me hives and anxiety attacks--so there's probably something obvious I overlooked. Eh. I'll give it another go.

#7
Kip Manley

Posted on February 4, 2005 4:26 PM

Weird.
I can give it a shot at some point over the weekend.

#8
Anonymous

Posted on February 4, 2005 6:58 PM

Aha
I finally figured out what photos you meant. It was actually Emily who added them to the entry.

Very cool!

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