Question about posting

[ccktek]

When postings are longish with several images, I appreciate inline images within the text.  It seems that generating such a posting within the text box is tricky.   Is it permissible to post the entire text with inline images as a pdf attachment?  Then the text in the text box might say "Please see the pdf attachment."  The images could still be listed separately as attachments in addition to the big pdf.

[ataradov]

You can do that, but think about people reading it. I personally would not bother  downloading a PDF, unless the topic is extremely interesting.

[Ian.M]

Unless you compress your images for minimum file size, if you frequently inline all your images, you will be deeply unpopular with users on limited bandwidth (e.g. mobile data plans).  There's even one user here who posts from the ship they work on, so is using satellite data for their internet access, and a few Megs of JPEGs will cost them significant money.

With that out of the way, its quite easy to inline images - simply mark the locations where you want the images with placeholders while composing the post, attach all the image files, post it, then go back and edit it in a *new* tab so you can copy the URLs of the image attachments from the previous tab, paste them in replacing the placeholders, then select each one in turn and click the 'Insert Image' tool.

[sokoloff]

The pdf text won’t be searchable and “see pdf” isn’t compelling, particularly given the history of security concerns over PDFs.

Post it like everyone else.

[Shock]

If you want to embed attachments you have already uploaded do the following, it's a lot easier that it seems and takes no time at all to do this.

1. Add all the attachments and text and click post.
2. Open the post up like you were reading it normally.
3. Click the attachment so it appears full size.
3. Right click on the image and save the image URL.
4. Edit the your post.
5. Paste the URLs where you want it to appear in text (on it's own line).
6. Highlight the text and click the image icon. Or manually type out the img bbcode tags.
7. Save the edited post.

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Example of img bbcode tags around a URL.
[img]http://oi68.tinypic.com/cnhg3.jpg[/img]
Posting documents and PDFs of normal conversation into forum threads is punishable by death, don't ever do it. It is considered very poor internet etiquette, especially as most forums allow you to embed attachments after posting. Same goes for posting dozens of pointless images and videos and doing it in consecutive posts for no reason, that is called Spam. Attaching super high resolution images to the forum when it's not needed is also poor form, it wastes the servers bandwidth and people will notice if you make a habit and start to hate you.

[tooki]

Please don’t post PDFs. For some odd reason, the way the forum software handles attachments renders them unviewable on iOS devices. (They insist on wanting to download, not open in a browser tab.)

Just attach images and then go back and embed them if you must.

[RoGeorge]

How big would it be a reasonably small embedded image (linked from places other than EEVblog)?

[ccktek]

Many thanks to all for very useful info.  Ian.M's solution looks like a good one.