Inserting image from URL
  • Edit
    This may have been answered but does MarsEdit have an option to insert images using an URL?

    I know I could just use the image tag but having it as an option in the Media tab would be a time-saving addition.
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Hi Patrix - MarsEdit doesn't have any such feature built-in right now. It's something I'm considering adding in the future.

    One solution I've used myself is to add a custom "Paste Image" markup macro (select "Edit…" from the end of of the text markup menu). This makes it easy at least to take a URL from the pasteboard and turn it into a full image tag with a keystroke or selection from the menu.
  • patrixpatrix
    Thanks, Daniel. That helped. Perhaps I should explore the 'Edit' option the text markup menu more.

    But it would be great to have it as an option in the Media tab.
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    My current thought is to add something to the "Catalog" pane that lets you manually add an image by URL to your collection of existing URLs.
  • patrixpatrix
    Yup. That would work too.

    When is the next update coming out? There have been quite a few feature requests in the past few months.
  • jlundelljlundell
    If you're not thinking of it already, it would be good to be able to (at least optionally) upload a new copy of an image at a URL, so as not to parasitize someone else's bandwidth. And also to be able to independently edit the image, once that capability exists.
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Unfortunately I can't comment on release dates, it's too easy to predict it wrong, and then everybody is disappointed. I realized waiting and wondering is also frustrating, but I think this is the best approach.

    jlundell - good point. A trick that works today in 2.4 is you can drag an image in to the uploader window and it will make a copy of the original. So if you see have an image in the browser and you want to upload copy, you can just drag the image to MarsEdit's "drag an image or file here" pane in the uploader.
  • patrixpatrix
    jlundell, I wanted to link to images from my other blog and didn't want to duplicate them on the original server. Personally, I would prefer a Photobucket catalog since I use that as my blog images archive for larger images.

    Daniel, thanks.
  • jlundelljlundell
    DJ, thanks. I'll give that a try. Patrix, I'd want the option to go either way. URLs are handy too, since I might have images at Flickr or Picasa or MobileMe that I could point to. But it's not always appropriate.

    I could imagine a common interface for URL-based images, with (say) a checkbox to make a copy.

    And of course image editing....
  • stomptokyostomptokyo
    I just wanted to give a +1 to this idea. Currently I use a Textexpander macro to insert the image code. An OK fix but I'd prefer to have it built into MarsEdit. Thanks!
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Thanks stomptokyo - there has been a little progress on this issue since the last time I wrote on this thread. In current releases of MarsEdit, if you are in RICH MODE you can find an item in the Format menu for "Image From URL…"

    I'm not sure why I didn't add this for HTML Text mode as well. I may have run into some issue or it may have been an oversight. I'm adding it to my TODO list to look into this again.

    Daniel
  • stomptokyostomptokyo
    OK, great, I'll keep that in mind. I rarely use rich mode, I've gotten so used to doing everything in HTML text mode.
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    I don't blame you … I still tend to stick to HTML mode too. But Rich mode is getting better and better.
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