Hi Stefan,

I attached a 12 page (22kB) pdf file - no images - to an entry, but elog only converted the first 8 pages to
images (.png).  This is reproducable, i.e. a different small multipage pdf file produced the same number of images.

The size of the pdf file does not seem to be a problem, a single page pdf file with a lot of images in it
attached as expected.

Is this correct, or a defined limitation?

> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I attached a 12 page (22kB) pdf file - no images - to an entry, but elog only converted the first 8 pages to
> images (.png).  This is reproducable, i.e. a different small multipage pdf file produced the same number of images.
> 
> The size of the pdf file does not seem to be a problem, a single page pdf file with a lot of images in it
> attached as expected.
> 
> Is this correct, or a defined limitation?

This is a defined limitation. Sometimes people attach whole books in PDF form to an entry, and you don't want to end up 
with hundreds of images cluttering your browser. If you want to see the full document, just load it into your PDF viewer.

> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > I attached a 12 page (22kB) pdf file - no images - to an entry, but elog only converted the first 8 pages to
> > images (.png).  This is reproducable, i.e. a different small multipage pdf file produced the same number of images.
> > 
> > The size of the pdf file does not seem to be a problem, a single page pdf file with a lot of images in it
> > attached as expected.
> > 
> > Is this correct, or a defined limitation?
> 
> This is a defined limitation. Sometimes people attach whole books in PDF form to an entry, and you don't want to end up 
> with hundreds of images cluttering your browser. If you want to see the full document, just load it into your PDF viewer.

Thanks, Stefan (why is this answer down under my name!?)

I couldn't find reference to this in the documentation.  In the case I referred to, I'll have to play with the pdf so that
the six pages I actually want displayed are.

Hi Stefan,

This has happened twice on this forum now, starting from Mon 23rd November.

Someone submits an entry (Me, 66625, Bertram Metz 66628)
I assume you post a reply (66626, 66629), but it shows up as if I or Bertram are the author of the reply, not
yourself.  My reply to you (66627) was really authored by me, and I expressed puzzlement then at this point.

Is this a bug, or some wierd affect of us forgetting to log out?

Regards,

David.

> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > This has happened twice on this forum now, starting from Mon 23rd November.
> > 
> > Someone submits an entry (Me, 66625, Bertram Metz 66628)
> > I assume you post a reply (66626, 66629), but it shows up as if I or Bertram are the author of the reply, not
> > yourself.  My reply to you (66627) was really authored by me, and I expressed puzzlement then at this point.
> > 
> > Is this a bug, or some wierd affect of us forgetting to log out?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > David.
> 
> Thanks for pointing out this issue. This bug was introduced recently, when I tried to avoid the
> 
> Re: Re: Re: ...
> 
> in the subject line. I changed this now completely so that we can have
> 
> Preset on reply Author = $full_name
> Preset on first reply Subject = Re: $Subject
> 
> which fixes both things. The modification is in revision 2271.

Thanks Stefan!

> > > > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > > > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > > > already onscreen.
> > > 
> > > This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> > > There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> > > into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> > > 
> > > http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> > > 
> > > for example.
> > 
> > Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
> > I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  
> 
> I'm not sure, but I doubt that it would work under Linux. It's a general security issue: If your browser has free access to 
> your clipboard, then what happens if you for example copy-and-paste a password in some application, then forget your password 
> in the clipboard, then you surf to a malicious website, and a script on that site grabs your clipboard contents? This would 
> be a severe security hole on ANY operating system.

Hi there,

In a linux installation straight out of the box, I can cut-and-paste text from the mailer program (a stand-alone one called
XCmail), from an xterm or similar into elog with no trouble.  I've not tried an image, I just attach them as I use plain encoding.
 Don't know how it would work if it were on a properly secure linux box.

 Hi Stefan,

I seem to recall this behaviour on this forum.  I was writing an entry, and due to mis-typing, submitted the entry before I had finished.  So I edited it, but there was only the one email sent.  I thought that this was how the thing was supposed to work.  To try it now, I am going to submit this, then edit the entry a little further, and we can all see if one or two emails are generated.