Unable to post trip report with photos within a word.docx

[joyvee]

Can you please tell me how to successfully post my long trip report? No photos appear , just writing about title of each one.
Your help would be appreciated . Maybe i should just email it to the mods for their support? thanks JoyV

 

[RB]

Can you please tell me how to successfully post my long trip report? No photos appear , just writing about title of each one.
Your help would be appreciated . Maybe i should just email it to the mods for their support? thanks JoyV

I will try & find some old posts. There was discussion a couple of months ago& it was obvious that many people use many different methods. I have used picasa to downsize, emailed to myself & then saved & used the sites uploader for the photo side of things. For the "description" I use word & then cut & paste into the site. I know others use the 3rd from the right at the top that says "insert image" as their way of uploading photos

 

[amaroo]

Can you please tell me how to successfully post my long trip report? No photos appear , just writing about title of each one.
Your help would be appreciated . Maybe i should just email it to the mods for their support? thanks JoyV

FWIW I've PM'd admin/support a couple of times on this topic and they/he/she couldn't be bothered replying and, I'm a paid up gold member :!: :evil::evil::evil:

For the TR's I've done, I've worked out by trial and error to duplicate the photos into small kb size and then load one by one. I can only do 5 photos per post - which means many posts if the TR is long.

 

[drron]

I also use Picassa to downsize the photos.Then upload them to Picassaweb.That then gives you instructions on how to post them.if a problem just ask.

 

[markis10]

Using an iDevice and an app makes trip reports pretty easy and I prefer that.

The software behind AFF and other boards does not support OLE (object linking and embedding) to Microsoft standards so writing a report in a MS product will not make it easier to post. Generally you need to host the picture somewhere on the net and then link to it in the post using

.

 

[Pushka]

I just used the AFF app on the iPhone. Extremely easy to load pictures taken as I go. Photos taken with the phone are in one folder and photos with a camera can be loaded through iTunes.

 

[admin]

FWIW I've PM'd admin/support a couple of times on this topic and they/he/she couldn't be bothered replying and, I'm a paid up gold member :!: :evil::evil::evil:

When did you send the PM's? We generally respond to all such messages - and from all members, GOLD or not! Please PM me details and I will follow up.

 

[amaroo]

When did you send the PM's? We generally respond to all such messages - and from all members, GOLD or not! Please PM me details and I will follow up.

Since posting I've received a PM from support offering an apology. Might be best to take it up at your end.

FWIW I posted about this in another thread early this year. Having trouble finding the post however a mod queried my post......but nothing came out of it.

BTW can a Gold member post more than 5 photos at a time? A Mod suggested this was the case.

 

[markis10]

BTW can a Gold member post more than 5 photos at a time? A Mod suggested this was the case.

A mod (me) suggested the limit could be changed for anyone, it was another member who suggest Gold members have more:

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....de-writing-your-first-57612-2.html#post982857

 

[Pushka]

I'm gold, I think, , but can only post 5 photos. I think that's actually a good limit.

 

[RooFlyer]

To the OP: What do you mean posting a TR "posting ...within a word.docx" ? if you are trying to post a Word doc, then that won't work (I'm pretty sure). If you are talking about copy-and-pasting from a Word doc, then as others have alluded to, the file size of the pictures are probably too large and in any event you don't paste the pics into the posting interface, but have to upload them using the appropriate button at the top. I'm not sure about the absolute limit, but 1MB is too large. I post pics between about 80kb and several hundred kb and they come out fine.

Copy the text in, then insert images which have been pre-shrunk, via some program's 'compression' function. (MS Picture Manager is easy to use that way).

Drron is the only one I have seen posting >5 pics per post and I assumed that was because he was a Gold member.

I'm silver and get around the 5 pics limit by copying my TR pics into word, two side-by-side. Then I copy the pair into one using MS's snipping tool and save that, which is usually around 200kb. Voila:

<snip> Generally you need to host the picture somewhere on the net and then link to it in the post using

.

Un-necessarily complex I suggest. A pic on any HDD can be uploaded (if its the right file size) with a couple of clicks (I think only the 'basic uploader' is functioning at the moment).

A mod (me) suggested the limit could be changed for anyone, it was another member who suggest Gold members have more:

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....de-writing-your-first-57612-2.html#post982857

I did ask Admin a while back about the pic numbers per post and was told it was a limit of 5. As Admin is following this thread perhaps he can spell out the policy for numbers of pics per post.

 

[markis10]

Un-necessarily complex I suggest. A pic on any HDD can be uploaded (if its the right file size) with a couple of clicks (I think only the 'basic uploader' is functioning at the moment).

Indeed, which is why I suggested the app is the easiest, as it autosizes the upload etc.

 

[anat0l]

The "limit" is 5 if you use AFF's Attachment function to upload photos.

For those on a desktop, you use the "Manage Attachments" button located below the main posting field. (You need to be in "Go Advanced" for the post editing rather than in "Quick Reply"). This interface will let you upload your photos, however not all photos can be successfully uploaded without some prior editing, i.e. they need to be downsized by reducing size and/or quality. I can't remember the exact guidelines.

To insert your attached picture after being uploaded, use the "Insert Inline" button.

The real limit to the number of pictures you can have in one post is 10. This count includes attachments, emoticons and pictures linked from other sources (e.g. from another website or a photo sharing service). Here are ten pictures:

:mrgreen:

:-|

You can host your pictures on an external picture site, such as Flickr. Many of them have free accounts with generous limits. That, of course, requires more effort to sign up and actually upload your pictures to the site. Then you have to obtain the URL for that picture and use that to show the picture back here in your post. The main advantages are getting around the "5 (attached) pictures per post limit", and the ability to upload your photos in almost native format (Flickr can produce downsampled versions of your photos without fuss).

Unless it has increased, the limit to the size of a post is also restricted to 7000 characters. It's actually not exactly that because the 7000 characters counts BB code, which is all the formatting coding which controls things like bolding, italics, font size, etc.. People using the WYSIWYG editor to do their posts won't see these codes, so expect that you'll post just under 7000 characters per post.

I believe none of these limits are contingent on AFF membership status. I'm not sure if posting via an app (iOS or Android) gets around any of these limits or systems.

Being a TR writer myself, it is often necessary and actually convenient to split the TR amongst several posts. I usually try and find a logical break for the next post (e.g. a new day, a new activity etc.), though more often than not I'm forced to break due to too many pictures in one post.

 

[admin]

Yes, I can confirm pretty much everything that anat0l has posted.

Specifically, there is a limit of 5 attachments per post. This limit is site-wide and applies to all members. That said, I think that attachments uploaded via the Apps can get around this constraint. There is also a limit of the total storage used for attachments for each member - again this limit applies to all members.

A trick I use when composing a long post is to first write it in Word. Then "cut and paste" it into a text file, and the "cut and paste" from the text file to AFF. This gives you the benefits of Word (such as a decent spell-check) but removes all the Word formatting which often doesn't display properly on vBulletin (i.e. AFF).

For images, I use Insert Image



then the "From Computer" option

The "limit" is 5 if you use AFF's Attachment function to upload photos.

For those on a desktop, you use the "Manage Attachments" button located below the main posting field. (You need to be in "Go Advanced" for the post editing rather than in "Quick Reply"). This interface will let you upload your photos, however not all photos can be successfully uploaded without some prior editing, i.e. they need to be downsized by reducing size and/or quality. I can't remember the exact guidelines.

To insert your attached picture after being uploaded, use the "Insert Inline" button.

The real limit to the number of pictures you can have in one post is 10. This count includes attachments, emoticons and pictures linked from other sources (e.g. from another website or a photo sharing service). Here are ten pictures:

:mrgreen:

:-|

You can host your pictures on an external picture site, such as Flickr. Many of them have free accounts with generous limits. That, of course, requires more effort to sign up and actually upload your pictures to the site. Then you have to obtain the URL for that picture and use that to show the picture back here in your post. The main advantages are getting around the "5 (attached) pictures per post limit", and the ability to upload your photos in almost native format (Flickr can produce downsampled versions of your photos without fuss).

Unless it has increased, the limit to the size of a post is also restricted to 7000 characters. It's actually not exactly that because the 7000 characters counts BB code, which is all the formatting coding which controls things like bolding, italics, font size, etc.. People using the WYSIWYG editor to do their posts won't see these codes, so expect that you'll post just under 7000 characters per post.

I believe none of these limits are contingent on AFF membership status. I'm not sure if posting via an app (iOS or Android) gets around any of these limits or systems.

Being a TR writer myself, it is often necessary and actually convenient to split the TR amongst several posts. I usually try and find a logical break for the next post (e.g. a new day, a new activity etc.), though more often than not I'm forced to break due to too many pictures in one post.

 

[Pushka]

The App has a five picture limit too. I tried.

 

[QF WP]

Interesting to see the varied ways members use to post photos and/or TR's. I'm a simple person - use what I know (which isn't much when it comes to IT). However I agree, using an iPad or iPhone (to my simple way of thinking) is handy. I still have a TR on my "Notes" on the iPhone - I really must post it one day.

 

[Pushka]

I still have a TR on my "Notes" on the iPhone - I really must post it one day.

That's how I did the recent cruise review with dodgy internet.

I realise now I have a great diary of the trip with photos which is something I've never had before as I'm not a fan of physical writing by pen.

 

[joyvee]

Thanks I am quietly going berserk trying to download this.I worked out i had to split it into parts due to pics. The photos are just finishing up as text. Now I will try and apply some of the above and keep persevering.Am using a HP laptop PC and it should be more user friendlly for non techi people to post but will try and solve it today.

 

[Pushka]

Thanks I am quietly going berserk trying to download this.I worked out i had to split it into parts due to pics. The photos are just finishing up as text. Now I will try and apply some of the above and keep persevering.Am using a HP laptop PC and it should be more user friendlly for non techi people to post but will try and solve it today.

IT is wonderful when it works and hair pulling when it doesn't. Keep trying.

 

[RooFlyer]

joyvee

If you upload your pics via the button shown by Admin's big purple arrow, it'll open up a dialog box. The 'select files' button at the bottom isn't working (related to a non AFF software change I think). Click on 'from computer', then click on 'basic uploader' to the bottom right, then browse to the pic you want to upload (one at a time). Then hit 'upload'. It might take 30 seconds or so while nothing appears to happen. But if its successful you will see text like this appear: ATTACH=CONFIG]27252[/ATTACH ( except with square brackets at the beginning and end) in the place where the pic will appear. Again, an image must be say, <300kb to be uploaded. You can shift the position of the image by just cutting and pasting that text where you want it.

Use 'Go Advanced' at the bottom to preview your post and see the pic.

Looking forward to the TR