Making Google Docs, Gmail and other web-based editors easier
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is PicturePaste?
How much does it cost?
What’s the difference between HomeHost and Premium?
What web based apps does it work with?
What browsers is it compatible with?
Why does it not work with Opera?
Does this work on the Mac?
Is it secure?
Can my pictures be seen by anyone?
How can I resize or wrap text around the photo?
Can I use photos direct from by Digital Camera?
How do I control the size of the picture?
Can I use this to embed screen shots?
Why does my picture copied from PDF / Word / look
so large / small?
If my question is not answered here?
Email help@picturepaste.com
In Google docs (and some other editors),
you can resize the photo by dragging on
a corner handle if you’re using the right
web browser (Firefox and Internet
Explorer). To wrap text around the
picture, as shown here, in Google docs
just click the image, you'll get a 'change
image' option appearing under the picture. Select this and then
you can select from a variety of preset image sizes and a 'wrap
text around' check-box. This allows you to position the image on
the left or right of your page, and for text to flow around the
sides.
This option is not available in Gmail.
A small Windows utility that sits on your desktop allowing
direct copying of graphics from any Windows application and
easy, direct, pasting into web-based text editors such as
Google Docs, Gmail, Hotmail, Wordpress and many other
online editing tools.
The latest version includes one-click resize, and crop of any
copied graphics, photos or screen grabs before pasting.
All images copied (or dropped) into the PicturePaste window are
resized down to a convenient size.
You can adjust this size two ways.
1) Just drag the size slider below the image
100% represents the original size of the copied image.
2) To control the initial size, click the small spanner icon
and select 'Settings'. Enter your required maximum
picture size in pixels.
The maximum value for any image is 2000 pixels.
For most general purposes, e.g. inclusion in email, blogs, Google
docs, a size of around 500 pixels is fine. It's unlikely you'll need to
have images larger than 1000 pixels as this as wide as the most
common computer screens.
There is a free version, that is fully functional but limited
to 50 pictures. There are two premium versions that have
no picture limits:
1) PicturePaste HomeHost which costs $9.95
2) PicturePaste Premium which costs $29.95
The HomeHost version uses your own servers to store the
pictures. The Premium one uses PicturePaste servers, so is
easier to setup.
The majority of web-based text editors, specifically most
rich text editor such as those used in Google Docs, Gmail,
Hotmail, Window Live Hotmail. Yahoo Mail, ZOHO, and all
online applications that use the CKEditor, FCKeditor, or
TinyMCE editors.
It is not compatible with Beta versions of Google Wave.
All modern web browsers, with the exception of Opera. So
this includes:
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Internet Explorer Version 6 onwards
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Firefox 2+
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Safari 3+ (for Windows only, not the Mac)
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Google Chrome
Because the Opera browser does not support the required
image drag and drop, or even image copying that all other
web browsers do. If you use Opera we suggest you contact
Opera customer support to find when they will fix this.
No, this utility is designed for Windows. Mac web browsers
do not support the required drag and drop or copy / paste
features to make this work.
Pictures converted using this utility are private, but are
uploaded to the Internet, so as with all web-based or 'cloud'
software the security is only as good as your username and
password on Google Docs, Gmail or whatever online system
you’re using.
Converted images are stored with an ‘impossible to guess’
URL so unless you specifically make them public, they are
secure, can’t be discovered by other people and will not be
indexed by Google or other search engines.
If converted pictures are included in any document that is
made public, such as a public email, published Google docs,
blogs etc, then the pictures themselves are made public and
are viewable by anyone.
Yes. Just open Windows File Explorer onto any folder
containing the common pictures types (JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG)
and drag the file onto PicturePaste window.
or
right click on the PicturePaste window and select Import.
The imported image can then be re-sized and cropped
before being Converted for pasting into your web editor.
Can I use this to capture screen images?
Yes. You can grab either the whole computer screen or just a
single window.
•
To capture the whole screen, just press the Print Screen
key (sometimes abbreviated to PrtScr or similar).
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To capture just a single window, first make sure it's the
current selected window on top (click on it) and then hold
the Alt key and press the Print Screen key.
Remember the image will be resized if it's larger than your set
maximum pixel size. You can adjust the size with the size slider.
100% which is the same size as the capture. You can crop the
image by just dragging on the cropped images
Once PicturePaste has the image, just click Convert and then
paste as usual.
When you copy photo from Word and PDF documents it
puts the original full resolution image on the clipboard,
and this is usually larger (sometimes smaller) than the size
on the page in Word or the PDF file.
You can resize the image using the size slider below the
image.
In order to embed an image in any online web-based
editor it’s necessary to upload to the internet or
‘cloud’. This is true for ALL images in ALL web-based
editors.
PicturePaste Premium uses our own servers to store
the images in a secure fashion. This requires no set-
up and is completely automatic (like the free version).
The HomeHost version is a lower cost option because
it uses your own servers. You can configure it to use
any FTP web server, or to use the Amazon S3 web
hosting service.
You can try the HomeHost feature on the free version
by selecting the Settings dialog (spanner icon) and
entering your FTP or S3 settings in the Advanced
section.
