Re: Help, I need to paste raw image from clipboard into emacs/orgmode

[Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>]

Am 20.07.2011 16:59, schrieb Medhat Essmat:
> Dear All,
> 
> Please Help,
> 
> I need to paste raw image from clipboard into emacs/orgmode, I am a microsoft onenote user and I got used to take a lot of snapshots and embed it into my notes, I think if I could know how to embed images directly into emacs/orgmode from clipboard, I will switch to emacs very easily.
> 
> 
> I searched the internet but unfortunately I didn't find the answer,
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> Dodo
Dear Dodo,

check this for Windows:

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The better approach seems to be to take the screenshot image from the clipboard.
Therefore any screenshot tool will do.

This works for me under Windows XP:
(I had to introduce the tilde-buffer-filename variable for irfanview to work)


(defun org-screenshot ()
  "Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the same directory as the org-buffer and insert
a link to this file."
  (interactive)
  (setq tilde-buffer-filename
	(replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" (buffer-file-name) t t))
  (setq filename
	(concat
	 (make-temp-name
	  (concat tilde-buffer-filename
		  "_"
		  (format-time-string "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_")) ) ".jpg"))
  ;; Linux: ImageMagick: (call-process "import" nil nil nil filename)
  ;; Windows: Irfanview
  (call-process "c:\\Programme\\IrfanView\\i_view32.exe" nil nil nil (concat "/clippaste /convert=" filename))
  (insert (concat "[[file:" filename "]]"))
  (org-display-inline-images))


So this is how it works:

1. take a screenshot with any tool you are used to use
2. change to your org buffer and call "org-screenshot" via M-x

Instead of ".jpg" you can use any format IrfanView understands, for example "png".

Very useful!

-- Rainer
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Check the corrsponding gmane thread with subject "insert picture feature request."

-- Rainer