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Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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Post by archon810 » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 4:27 AM UTC

Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard
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Post by aymeric » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 4:40 AM UTC

Finally! Now my screenshot workflow is down to two steps:

Win+S (OneNote screenshot feature) CTRL+V

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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Post by archon810 » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

aymeric wrote: post #2

Finally! Now my screenshot workflow is down to two steps: Win+S (OneNote screenshot feature) CTRL+V

That is exactly what mine is too. I believe this makes us roughly 100 times more productive compared to those who need to cut an area from a screenshot and use something like Print Screen + PhotoShop.

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Post by kprobst » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 4:49 AM UTC

aymeric wrote: post #2

Finally! Now my screenshot workflow is down to two steps: Win+S (OneNote screenshot feature) CTRL+V

I use Cropper (http://cropper.codeplex.com/). Works great, and both Notes and Outlook take the Ctrl+V just fine. Cropper can also be used to intercept PtrnScrn commands.

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Post by tapp » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 4:57 AM UTC

Can someone here confirm this is actually working for them? (Paste an image from the clipboard, send the email, check that the inline image was actually attached)

It appears to me that FF4 is merely displaying the clipboard image in the rteditor in draft mode, but it is not actually attached to the email when sent.

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Post by redstripe » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 5:02 AM UTC

tapp wrote: post #5

Can someone here confirm this is actually working for them? (Paste an image from the clipboard, send the email, check that the inline image was actually attached) It appears to me that FF4 is merely displaying the clipboard image in the rteditor in draft mode, but it is not actually attached to the email when sent.

I didn't for me. Looking in my sent box the message had an inline stream rather than an attachment:

<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/7QAcUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNBAQAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAMCAgICAgMCAgIDAwMDBAcEBAQEBAgGBgUHCgkKCg...

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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Post by mitali » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 5:05 AM UTC

This has been a Gmail Labs for a long while... I have it enabled for all 3 of my gmail accounts for a while now.

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Post by rdamico » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 5:05 AM UTC

This is a big step forward for Gmail. Now if they could just add some simple mail merge functionality, that would be another super-useful feature.

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Post by patrickaljord » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 5:10 AM UTC

redstripe wrote: post #6

tapp wrote: post #5

Can someone here confirm this is actually working for them? (Paste an image from the clipboard, send the email, check that the inline image was actually attached) It appears to me that FF4 is merely displaying the clipboard image in the rteditor in draft mode, but it is not actually attached to the email when sent.

I didn't for me. Looking in my sent box the message had an inline stream rather than an attachment: <img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/7QAcUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNBAQAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAMCAgICAgMCAgIDAwMDBAcEBAQEBAgGBgUHCgkKCg...

Works fine here on both chrome 12 and ff4 on ubuntu.

Re: Goodbye Outlook - Gmail now lets you paste images directly from clipboard

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Post by rodh257 » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 5:12 AM UTC

aymeric wrote: post #2

Finally! Now my screenshot workflow is down to two steps: Win+S (OneNote screenshot feature) CTRL+V

Snipping tool (Vista/7) has similar functionality, I keep it pinned to start menu, though more often than now I use Alt + PrintScrn to just copy the active window to clipboard.