Re: feature request: easy embedding of images

[Jude DaShiell]

To help accessibility it would be useful when an image was dragged into
org-mode if the user got prompted for an image description that gets
associated with the image in org-mode.  Some images are art work and those
should get alt="" tags if a user fails to provide a description but only
after asking if this image is art work or something that needs a
description.  If a description is provided that should go between the
quotes in the alt="" tag.



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On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, Russell Adams wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 04:22:33PM -0800, Alexis Gallagher wrote:
> > Hello, my fellow org-mode lovers,
> >
> > This is a feature request ? or failing that, a request for advice on
> > a settings configuration which could produce this functionality now.
>
> Have you looked at org-attach-screenshot?
>
> https://github.com/dfeich/org-screenshot
>
> It uses org-attach and calls out to take a screenshot.
>
> I do the same with some local function's I wrote a while ago. It works
> very well for me. I run M-x my/org-screenshot, and after 3 seconds it
> will use Imagemagick's "import" command to allow me to select a region
> to screenshot and saves it to a filename I prepared.
>
> I do this daily, many times each day.
>
> > I wish org-mode had the ability to attach images to notes, display
> > them inline, and have that work well. By ?work well? I mean a few
> > specific things:
> >
> >     ?       the image is automatically resized to maintain aspect ratio and
> >     ?       fit horizontally with a civilized margin, so that I can resize
> >     ?       my emacs window without the image disappearing or swamping the
> >     ?       other content.
>
> This is Emacs, not Org. Perhaps someone knows how to adjust that.
>
> >     ?       you can still scroll the window one line height unit at a time,
> >     ?       without the entire image being scrolled as if it were one giant
> >     ?       line, breaking scrolling, as seems to happen on my emacs
> >     ?       (version 28.x on Linux)
>
> Mine jumps too, but again that's Emacs, not Org.
>
> >     ?       drag and drop, so I can add the image by dragging it in, for
> >     ?       instance from a screenshot tool or from an image on a web page.
>
> I can't answer that. Drag and drop functions depend on your
> platform. Does anything else in Emacs use drag and drop?
>
> >     ?       sensible defaults for storing the images bundled with notes and
> >     ?       keeping the two associated, so that I don't subsequently live in
> >     ?       fear of ever moving my org files
>
> I do save all of mine to the same directory as my org file in
> .org/Filename.org.screenshotYYYYMMDDHHMMSS.png. It means I can easily
> know what files below to my org document.
>
> > Why is this valuable, to me at least? I use org to take notes all
> > day, during meetings, on reading matter, in the development of my
> > own thoughts. Embedding images would let me collect every kind of
> > resource I can't reproduce by typing or copy and pasting text ?
> > photos of slides during presentations, photos of whiteboard, key
> > snippets from websites, handwritten notes and equations, etc..
>
> Of course it's valuable, and already implemented. I think you're
> asking more about refining how you use it.
>
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