Doug Kerr
Well-known member
The New OPF forum affords the opportunity for us to include an image in a forum message without first having it hosted on a site someplace. At first, this didn't work for ordinary members (only for those in the nomenklatura), but now (with a great deal of tedious work on Asher's part, section by section), it seems to be generally available.
Uploading an image file held on your computer system for inclusion of the image in a post
Have the cursor in your message where you want the image embedded.
Click on the Attach Files button below the composition window. Navigate to the desired file and do Open or the equivalent. You will see a thumbnail of the image, with two buttons, Thumbnail and Full image. The latter, despite its name, actually causes the image to be included in a fairly large display size.
In either case, the image will display at the left margin (and you will see it in the composition window). If you want the image centered, click in the blank space on teh screen to the right of teh image as seen. On the main toolbar (at the top of the composition screen), take the dropdown on the Alignment tool (looks like this):
and select the middle icon, "Align center".
If you wish to change the size of the image as displayed, click on the image and then drag one of the corner "handles" to give the desired size.
Embedding in a message an image Copy-ed from an application
Copy the image however you have to do that.
Have the cursor in your message where you want the image embedded.
Do Edit>Paste from the Windows menu (or the corresponding thing on a Mac system).
The image will be deposited, essentially at a pixel-for-pixel size (maybe), at the left margin. You can then center it and/or change its size as described above.
Either way
Either way, we can end up easily with something like this:
This is a long-awaited and wonderful capability. Kudos to Asher and to the many others who brought this about.
Best regards,
Doug
Uploading an image file held on your computer system for inclusion of the image in a post
Have the cursor in your message where you want the image embedded.
Click on the Attach Files button below the composition window. Navigate to the desired file and do Open or the equivalent. You will see a thumbnail of the image, with two buttons, Thumbnail and Full image. The latter, despite its name, actually causes the image to be included in a fairly large display size.
In either case, the image will display at the left margin (and you will see it in the composition window). If you want the image centered, click in the blank space on teh screen to the right of teh image as seen. On the main toolbar (at the top of the composition screen), take the dropdown on the Alignment tool (looks like this):
and select the middle icon, "Align center".
If you wish to change the size of the image as displayed, click on the image and then drag one of the corner "handles" to give the desired size.
Embedding in a message an image Copy-ed from an application
Copy the image however you have to do that.
Have the cursor in your message where you want the image embedded.
Do Edit>Paste from the Windows menu (or the corresponding thing on a Mac system).
The image will be deposited, essentially at a pixel-for-pixel size (maybe), at the left margin. You can then center it and/or change its size as described above.
Either way
Either way, we can end up easily with something like this:
This is a long-awaited and wonderful capability. Kudos to Asher and to the many others who brought this about.
Best regards,
Doug