Hi, folks. I’ve searched for a topic similar to this and can’t find anything, so here’s the idea.
It’d be interesting to have a placeholder tag like:
<$image:[image path here]>
Three reasons:
To insert graphics into titles/subtitles/headers/footers.
Because–as I found recently when working with a document that had over 160 in-text images–working with a lot of images can slow a system down, meaning it’d be nice to see a placeholder for the images in the document view instead of the images themselves.
It’d allow automated link-building a la the “Insert / Image Linked to File…” function. For instance, I could hack together a quick Excel spreadsheet that would concatenate image file names and the placeholder tag syntax into an actual tag for copy-and-paste insertion, rather than performing the insert function through the Finder. (The Finder method is fine when all your images are in one location, but when they’re spread out it can get a little time-consuming.)
Of course, I don’t know whether such an enhancement would be possible to code…
You know, I used to try to make suggestions to the Word development team, but after years of stony silence from them, my suggestions eventually became unprintable.
Here, however, we have same-day service. Nice. The scaling is a thoughtful addition.
This is going to save my bacon when I go to compile the final version of a tech document for work… I’ve been struggling to make images in my document come out only as wide as my page. Since I’m composing this on my Windows machine at work, that means I’ll have to put the project on dropbox and mess with it on my Mac at home, but this new tag will make my life far easier than it has been. Hooray!
Would it be possible to use a Scrivener link for the file name in the tag, so that we can click on the link to bring up the image in the other editor or a quick reference window?
Sure, since the tag itself is just text you can link it up to whatever you like. In fact I do this a lot with my MMD links (which are similarly just text pointing to a resource; either as a cross-ref or image). Since you’ll be using the image name as a part of the link, the link menu will helpfully suggest it at the top so you don’t have to drill down through the binder sub-menus to get at it.
This is my first time on this forum, so please forgive the simplicity of the question. I’ve read as many posts as possible in the forum to figure out how to get my image placeholder tags to render properly after Compile.
I followed Keith’s instructions on creating image tags. All of my images are in my Research folder. Accordingly, I’ve named the tags as I have the images, i.e., image titled “Architecture” is given the tag Figure <$img:Architecture>.
I’ve tried variations of this tag <$image:Architecture>, <$img:~/Pictures/Architecture.jpg>. And I linked the relevant images as an internal link to the text document. But after I hit Compile, I don’t see my images.
I got this function to work with Scrivener 1 a couple of years ago, but can’t seem to get it to work now. I am using Scrivener 2.2, on a Mac (Snow Leopard).
I’m not sure how you got this working with Scrivener 1.x, as this feature was only added last week. As you’ll note from my comments in this thread, I have only just implemented it, for the next update (2.3). So it will not work in 2.2. There is a 2.3 beta available for download if you would like to test this feature, though - see the “Beta Testing” sub-forum of the “Scrivener for Mac” forum.
Also, remember that you can insert images into the text in the regular way (by dragging them in from the binder or using Edit > Insert > Image From File…).
I could’ve sworn that there was a similar feature in an earlier version of Scrivener. I have this old tag (Figure <$n:figure:figureOfDiamondPlaza>) in one of my text documents that I remember working at some point in the past. How or when I can’t say of course. 8)
This tag will be so useful. I’m working on modifying the Series Development Bible for use with Comics (mini-series, ongoing series and Graphic Novels) and this tag is perfect for the Character and location parts of the SDB. I plan on using MangaStudio to create the images in and exporting them from (they’ll be all the same size and have the same file name, except for the number at the end), so there’s going to be a bit of working to see if things can be more automated. But that can wait for another thread and v. 2.3.
As you’ll note from my comments in this thread, I have only just implemented it, for the