Question

Hi Folks,

I am planning to use TWiki to publish software documentation, and this includes many screenshots, in formatted text.

I find it slow to have to manually attach an image to a topic, then figure out the long string to reference it.

Does anyone know of a fast, simple way (using a plug-in, add-on, or any other method) to quickly publish a document in TWiki, that has a lot of images in it?

Thanks! -Steven

Environment

-- StevenHall - 02 Aug 2006

Answer

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What kind of source format do you have?

If your source format is anything like (or easily convertable to) XML, you could probably get by with a simple XSLT transformation, and just manually coping your image files to your pub directory afterwards.

If your source format is more wysiwyg-like, you will probably find it easier to copy-paste into OpenOffice and afterwards use the OpenOffice2TWikiAddOn.

Anyway, we will probably be able to offer you somewhat better advice if you can tell us a bit more about your usecase.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 03 Aug 2006

check out ImageGalleryPlugin and browse the others at Tag:images

-- WillNorris - 04 Aug 2006

I think, I know what Steven is looking for: It will be very nice to have a feature/possibility to paste Screenshots direct from Clipboard into twiki. I know it's sounds impossible, but I think there is an plugin for twiki that has this feature, written in Java... Does somebody knows anything about it? Thank you in advance... Cheers Bojan

-- BojanJovanovic - 23 Oct 2008

You can at least get the attachments all in one action by creating a folder with the same name as your Topic in the pub folder, then putting all your images in there. The next time you browse that topic, all the attachments will be there. You can then use "Manage" to embed them in the page, then move their tags around to display where you need them.

ImageGalleryPlugin should be a good way to go, too. But good luck getting the dependencies installed.

-- DavidWolfe - 23 Oct 2008