Quintagroup has developed a collective.clipboardupload tool that essentially allows you to copy images and past them directly into TinyMCE visual editor.
- Plone 4.0
- Plone 4.1
- Plone 4.2
- Plone 4.3
Know browser issues: Ctrl+V does not always work for me in Firefox (MacOSX 10.8), so menu Edit -> Paste to the rescue. Safari works same way. Chrome fails 100%. Works in Windows.
In your buildout.cfg add the following:
[buildout]
....
eggs =
...
collective.clipboardupload
It will engage automatically after buildout is rebuilt and instance started.
Collective.clipboardupload, developed to simplify the process of inserting images into TinyMCE without the need to upload the image, with simple Copy/Paste operation.
Open an image in, for example, Preview.app select an area and copy it to clipboard. Switch to Plone TinyMCE and Paste. Use your browser menu Edit -> Paste in case Ctrl+V fails.
The picture will be automatically uploaded to the edited page containing folder and stored as an Plone Image. Upon save the Image path is converted to resolveuid link. The id of the image object is automatically generated from the prefix Clipboard_image_ and the current timestamp. You can customize this behavior by adding a Python script generate_image_id to your Plone site. This script takes the context as parameter and needs to return a string which is used as image Id.
- Maksym Shalenyi