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. > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype: wikibc Twitter: glerouge http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users