[Moin-user] Image problems

[Rick Vanderveer]

Well, Chris, keep in mind that no blogging/wiki tool is going to just
magically scale 6~12Mb photos to some arbitrary size that fits your needs.
You'll have to either make or scale your own photos.

With a simple test, I've confirmed that you can combine multiple variables.
So, for example, you should be able to point to a photo on your local
machine (say, via an apache alias, as some else pointed out), and then use
arguments to specify the width and alignment.  Adapting the example on the
HelpOnImages page, here's an example.

[[attachment:Grand_Tetons.jpg|{{attachment:Grand_Tetons.jpg||width=100,align="right"}}]]

There's also a couple gallery macros, which doesn't sound exactly like what
you want, but may prove useful anyway.

-Rick



On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I'm beginning to think that putting pictures into a wiki is just not
> the done thing!  :-) (or maybe :-( )
>
> I'm trying to use moinmoin (and I have also played with some other
> wikis without much more success) to create some narratives of holidays
> and other similar sorts of things.  What I want is the ability to
> create a stream of text with some pictures interleaved in it.
>
> This is not (at least to start with) for the world to see, it's for me
> and other users of the local LAN to look at and use.  It's an
> information resource and a place to store and add notes.
>
> So, I have moinmoin up and working on the LAN, I can do all the sorts
> of things one expects to be able to do, add pages, edit pages, create
> Categories, etc., etc.
>
> ***BUT*** putting pictures into pages is a disaster.  The *only* way
> that works (sort of) is to actually *copy* the picture from the source
> into moinmoin.  Even then (I just tried it) thre result is a bit of a
> mess because the picture is too big and it hides the page editing
> links so now I can't change the page at all and, as it's just a
> picture too big to be displayed, that's a bit of a mess.
>
> OK, if I had a library of little thumbnails, I could use them quite
> happily but for actual photos direct from a camera I really don't see
> how to use them with moinmoin at all.
>
> (OK, for a narrative maybe a blog is the way to go but I want a
> narrative that starts at the beginning and finishes at the end)
>
> ... sorry if this is a bit of a rant but I've been trying to find a
> solution for my requirements for several weeks now, I've gone from
> WordPress to Blosxom to DokuWiki to Moinmoin (all installed here on my
> system) and haven't really found a good answer yet.
>
> --
> Chris Green
>
>
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