Creating an embedded image

Background

Starting point

The procedure in this topic assumes Skribenta is installed and configured for normal operation, and:

You have logged into Skribenta.
You are assigned to one of the following user roles: content provider, technical writer or administrator.
You have selected the workspace you want to work in.
A content file or a configuration file is created in the workspace.
You have browsed to and opened the file in the Workspace view or the Publications view.
The file has an XML element that can contain text, such as a paragraph, a title, or a table caption.

Your need

You need to create an image in your content by pasting an image from the Clipboard.

The possibility

It is possible to create an embedded image by pasting an image from the Clipboard to the file content in Skribenta. The embedded image is inserted in an embed element.

About this task

What you will learn

This instruction tells you how to create an embedded image.

The result

This is the content before creating an embedded image:

This is the content after creating an embedded image:

In the shown images, the XML tags are visible. To show XML tags, see Turning XML element tags on or off.

Overall steps

Open the file, then paste an image from the Clipboard to your file content in Skribenta.

Time

Less than 1 minute

Procedure

In the shown images, the XML tags are visible. To show XML tags, see Turning XML element tags on or off.

1. Make sure that the step(s) in section "Starting point" (see section "Background" above) are performed.

2. Copy an image outside Skribenta to the Clipboard. You can:

copy an image in another document outside Skribenta,
copy an image file on your computer (only works for SVG images and the most common raster images, for example PNG, JPG and GIF),
do a screenshot.

3. In your file content, put the caret where you want to create the embedded image.

4. Press Ctrl+V to paste the image from the Clipboard.

An embed element containing the image is created.

5. To set an image description text and publishing width, right-click the embed element.

A pop-up list opens.

6. In the pop-up list, select the embed icon.

The embed toolbar opens,

7. On the embed toolbar, click Size.

The Size tab opens.

8. In the:

Description box, type a text that will be shown as an image tooltip in Skribenta and as an alternative text if published to HTML.
Publish width box, type the image publishing width, which can be absolute, relative, or set to original size:
- Absolute: for example 10cm, 50mm, 100pt, 50px.
- Relative: for example 50%, 100%. The image publishing width is relative to the available width at the image location.
- Original size: Leave empty.

9. Click Apply.