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talktotoptalktotop
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Hi,

How can I insert images in my post without the use of url. The images are saved on my system. Saw in one post where Sven referred to this link "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme" Still cant comprehend what is there. Need help a great deal.

Many thanks

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  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    Well you have to convert the content of your images into that format, putting that into a file with one line each and later use spinfile macro here.
  • talktotoptalktotop
    I am still lost. Not familiar with the terms
  • AlexRAlexR Cape Town
    @sven - can you explain that a little more? I didn't understand.

    Are you saying that we can convert all our images to a format, place them one per line in a .txt file and use a macro? If so:
    1) How do I get theme thematically related? Do I use IMAGEURL,KEYWORD,KEYWORD2 
    2) Or do I have to use 1 .txt file per group of niche images? 
    In which case, surely just using a .txt with a spinfile macro for each niche does this already, then what is this new feature for?
  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    just use the new macros and you don''t need to convert anything as the program does it for you...see last two entries in macro guide.
  • AlexRAlexR Cape Town
    edited July 2013
    I think I am understanding more.

    So for my profile images I have a folder with 500 avatars. 

    1) Under profile image field I enter:
    %spinfolder_data_url-<C:Dropbox/..../Profiles/>%
    It will grab a random profile image and use that. Would this be better than using just:
    %spinfolder-<C:Dropbox/..../Profiles/>%

    2) Within an article is it better to:
    a) Either have images in a folder on the VPS and use %spinfolder_data_url-<C:Dropbox/..../Images/>%
    b) OR Use images that are uploaded elsewhere, and use external img url's 
    e.g. %spinfile-<C:Dropbox/..../Images.txt% (which contains a list of external image urls:
    etc)



  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de

    1) no thats the wrong place. You use that macro directly within your article. It will embed the image data into the article without uploading it. Though not every engine might allow/support it. I haven't made any tests on it.

    2) Actually the macro is for c) where the images are stored on the article site itself as the data is embedded into the article. I don't think it matters much where the images are stored (case a or b).

  • AlexRAlexR Cape Town
    @sven - thanks for your patience in explaining this. I think I'm getting closer to understanding this macro. 

    Last questions:
    1) "where the images are stored on the article site itself as the data is embedded into the article. 
    I don't think it matters much where the images are stored "
    What's the format for images on an external URL?
    "%spinfolder_data_url-<C:Dropbox/..../Profiles/ImageURLs.txt>%"

    2) "I don't think it matters much where the images are stored " - then why not use:
    %spinfile-<C:Dropbox/..../Profiles/ImageURLs.txt>% like we have always done?

    Sorry for all the questions it just seems like a super neat feature but struggling with it a bit. 
  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de

    1) you have to use... <img src="%spinfolder_data_url-<C:Dropbox/..../Profiles/ImageURLs.txt>%">. Thats also shown as a examble in the macro guide.

    2) Because some customers don't have a place to upload there images but still want to show there images in the article without uploading them.

  • AlexRAlexR Cape Town
    @sven

    For 1: What format do the images need to be in the .txt file? Is it the internal or external filepaths?

  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    local file, no urls.
  • hans51hans51
    An new (to me) and potentially interesting method to insert images into articles to add color and visual effects value.to text

    I just tried one article manually  submitted to a higher quality article site and in the article preview the image was missing - only the broken image thumbnail visible.
    In the final submitted version all text BELOW begin of image data code was missing/cut off.

    the question thus is

    what type of platforms support insertion of data:image/jpeg;base64 into article text ?

    anyone made any testing or has experience
    - wikis
    - wordpress
    - particular article platforms
    - forums

    how could we filter those platforms accepting such image data procedure if supporting platforms known.
    as in my a.m. sample to submit to all and have large % of articles cut OFF might result in  banned account or rejected articles. hence a filtering method seems essential

    BTW
    I used Linux CLI command
    base64 (see man base64)
    to convert a jpg into data:image/jpeg;base64
    and in my offline file as well as my HTML editor ((quanta plus) all looked fine.
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