Pictures in posts and font sizes.

[Fowlers FuryParticipant @fowlersfury]

Dave's bullet point 1 has prompted some investigation which has confirmed his thesis.
I selected a b&w image of a loco from my files and pasted it into the blank posting space.
Pressing <Add posting> brought up the message "xxxxx characters too many, spilt into different postings" or words to that effect.
The image was progressively reduced in size and dpi until it was just 55Kb and that message still came up though with a different value for the "excess" characters. I tried it in various file types (jpg, png, pdf etc) but no joy.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

[Anthony KnightsParticipant @anthonyknights16741]

Posted by Phil Meaken on 19/03/2021 10:04:50:

Thanks to all, but most ways seem to need too much of a long-winded faff or need extra packages to be installed, so I'll just not bother with graphics until the ME software is updated.

As for text, indeed I do most in LibreOffice and Copy and Paste into here

The code to download imagemajick is 10 words. The code to change the image format is 5 words. The OP's post above is 50 words. What long winded faff?

Actually getting a JPEG image off your computer and into a post on this site is currently a much bigger "Faff"

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Posted by Phil Meaken on 19/03/2021 11:45:19:

Russell, that book looks like just what I need, so I've ordered it via Amazon.

Good luck and have fun!

[Phil MeakenParticipant @philmeaken46472]

Posted by Anthony Knights on 20/03/2021 09:24:41:

Posted by Phil Meaken on 19/03/2021 10:04:50:

Thanks to all, but most ways seem to need too much of a long-winded faff or need extra packages to be installed, so I'll just not bother with graphics until the ME software is updated.

As for text, indeed I do most in LibreOffice and Copy and Paste into here

The code to download imagemajick is 10 words. The code to change the image format is 5 words. The OP's post above is 50 words. What long winded faff?

Actually getting a JPEG image off your computer and into a post on this site is currently a much bigger "Faff"

As I said, Anthony, I'll leave it until the software on here is updated. I did briefly try imagemagick as I said earlier, but got nowhere – one reason is that using images with Linux on this laptop has problems, other is there are reasons due to how my brain works which I won't go into.

[Pete WhiteParticipant @petewhite15172]

That brought the Linux users out , I have been one for over 15 now .

There are none so blind as those who don't want to hear ? ? ? Think I got that quote wrong ? ? ? lol

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