[Moin-user] Image problems

[George Dinwiddie]

Hi, Chris,

I don't use many images in moin pages, but I do what you suggest in HTML 
pages.  I typically use ImageMagick to create the thumbnails, these 
days.  It lets me bulk convert from the commandline.  I've used it on 
Linux, Windows, & OS-X.

It also has python bindings, I think, if you or someone wanted to create 
a moin plugin with it.

  - George

Chris G 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.
> 

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