Pasting Images Into EditLive! for Java

I got some nice feedback over night on an old post about WYSIWYG editors:

# Pedja Says:
June 6th, 2006 at 11:49 pm

You are the greatest.

You are the only web rich text control where I can simply paste image from clipboard.

Congratulations!

I had forgotten about that feature – it has often been one of my favorites, particularly when I want to include screen shots in technical documentation I’m writing.

When you copy an image from most (all?) image editing applications or Window’s print screen functionality, you can paste in EditLive! for Java and it will automatically insert an IMG tag and make sure that the image is uploaded to the server when you submit the page.

In recent versions I believe it uses PNG to upload, but in older versions it used JPEG and it may still on some JVMs where outputting PNG isn’t available. I’m not sure how well this works cross platform, it will depend on whether or not the JVM makes the image content available on the Java clipboard correctly.