Hi Steven,
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Steven Calkins <
steven.calk...@crossmediasolutions.de> wrote:
> Hi Sergiu,
>
> Yes, of course you can use the {image} macro for the 1.0 syntax, or the
> image: syntax for 2.0 documents, if they are attached, but to save time the
> images were not attached. I copied the folder with hundreds of files from
> knowledgeroot (where the images were) to the xwiki folder and changed the
> URLs with an UltraEdit macro using regular expressions.
>
> The point is then, that manually importing the files as attachments is the
> work that can, in this case, be avoided. So the workaround is for external
> file references from, e.g., another system. It would be nice to be able to
> declare a folder in XE to be a resource folder for those cases in which
> resources from other systems must be used. Or do you already have such a
> facility?
>
Not quite. However, using XWiki's WebDAV interface you could quite easily
drag & drop files from a location on the filesystem to XWiki pages. If
knowledgeroot can be accessed through a filesystem, moving image files
between both platforms would be extremely easy.
Guillaume
>
> Greetings,
> Steven Calkins
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: users-boun...@xwiki.org [mailto:users-boun...@xwiki.org] Im Auftrag
> von Sergiu Dumitriu
> Gesendet: Freitag, 28. August 2009 12:49
> An: XWiki Users
> Betreff: Re: [xwiki-users] A workaround for a PDF rendering problem
>
> Steven Calkins wrote:
> > Dear XWiki users,
> >
> > I just wanted to share a workaround for a PDF rendering problem. I was
> > copying and pasting html from a knowledgeroot system into xwiki. In
> > the process I was changing the image paths to relative URLs. Normally
> > nothing speaks against using the absolute URLs, but we may need to
> > move the wiki soon, so I decided that relative paths are better. They
> > display fine in Xwiki Enterprise, but then the disappointment came
> > when I tried the PDF print. The first image appeared but the following
> > were empty! So I needed an absolute path which I can change easily if we
> move the wiki.
> >
> > I went into the xwiki/skins/Albatross/template directory to the the
> > xwikivars.vm file and added a variable of the form:
> > #set($domain = "http://domain:port";) After adding it, I saved the
> > file, restarted Tomcat and tested by typing somewhere in a page
> "$domain".
> > That took care of it. The PDFs were just fine now. Now I can replace
> > the relative URL everywhere by "${domain}/[ here relative URL]". When
> > we move the wiki to another server it will work as soon as I make a
> > single change in the xwiki/skins/Albatross/template/xwikivars.vm file.
> >
> > I am new at XWiki, so if anyone has a better solution I'd be very glad
> > to hear it.
>
> If the images are attachments to the wiki, you can use the {image} macro
> for the 1.0 syntax, or the image: syntax for 2.0 documents.
>
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