[Moin-user] Image problems

[Chris G]

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:02:44PM -0500, George Dinwiddie wrote:
> 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.
> 
Not really a solution for what I want to do but it makes me feel a bit
less obtuse in that I'm not missing anything really obvious!  :-)

>   - 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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