Export images alongside .md files

pirboazo

Export does not download the pictures, and leaves a reference on the photos how in cryptpad.

Not very usable

Mathilde

Hello,

Exporting Code / Markdown documents only allows you to download the corresponding .md file.

How would you like this to work? Downloading a .zip archive containing both the .md file and the attached images?

pirboazo

Mathilde
Yes, this would allow to transfer Markdown documents outside Cryptpad as it is possible to do with text or document applications.
The zip is a solution, but including the images in the Markdown file as in the Rich Text application would be better than the current export.

Mathilde

Thanks for your answer!

It isn't possible to bundle images into Markdown files. The format doesn't support that, it's only "plain text" documents where the content is formatted using special characters.

Rich Text uses the .doc format, that is meant to work that way. It's basically a .zip archive full of directories with .xml files for storing the document data and the images stored in other folders.

That's why I suggested using .zip archives but I'm not sure if that would fit well in CryptPad scope. To do this you probably better just use Rich Text or the new Document early-access app.

pirboazo

Mathilde

!!!
When i export a Rich Text i have a choice : with ![

.html
.Md
.doc

Image description](https://forum.cryptpad.org/assets/files/2022-10-12/1665582133-343836-screenshot-from-2022-10-12-15-39-29.png)

Image description

And i can open the md file with a markdown editor.

Mathilde

Yes that's true, but the .md file that you can export won't contain the images you had in the document. Because it's unsupported by the file format itself, only .doc allows this. 😊

pirboazo

I can send you a workable md file with at least 2 applications:

haroopad.
ghostwriter

Not to on the forum but on you email or on matrix.
and i can prepare a test file for the forum.

Mathilde

Ah, my bad! I know what you mean.

We do some kind of an hack to bundle images into Markdown files, using data-url on Rich Text exports.
I don't know about this really, it's not very practical either. I just loaded a 3MB image into the document and now I have a 2 millions characters url and can't properly edit it anymore.

From my side a .zip archive containing:

the .md document
an /img folder with the images inside

...would be much cleaner.

pirboazo

Yes i think is better ;-)

Also we must suppress the .md option from Rich Text export. or create the zip file also.