[MlMt] Using TextExpander snippets that include pictures

Paul Burchfield paul at love2tap.com
Mon Oct 2 19:32:20 EDT 2017


I'll bet you are on to something there. In TextExpander, snippets can be 
assigned to one of these types:
![](cid:DA5D22B9-A3C6-4FF6-B260-37808DEC94C9 at love2tap.com 
"PastedImage.png")

And pictures can't be included in Plain Text snippets.

Paul

On 2 Oct 2017, at 12:28, Kee Hinckley wrote:

> I suspect the issue is that it’s not pasting an image, it’s 
> pasting rich
> text that contains an image.
>
>
> From: Paul Burchfield <paul at love2tap.com> <paul at love2tap.com>
> Reply: MailMate Users <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
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> Date: October 2, 2017 at 2:44:36 PM
> To: MailMate Users <mailmate at lists.freron.com> 
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> Subject:  Re: [MlMt] Using TextExpander snippets that include pictures
>
> Thanks, Benny.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 2 Oct 2017, at 5:02, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>> On 30 Sep 2017, at 19:20, Paul Burchfield wrote:
>>
>> I use TextExpander a lot. Some of my snippets include pictures and
>> are set up in TextExpander as "Formatted Text, Pictures". However,
>> when expanding those snippets into MailMate, the pictures aren't
>> included. And while I can copy and paste them in, that defeats the
>> purpose of the snippet.
>>
>> Has anyone figured a way around this?
>>
>>
>> I wonder how TextExpander implements this. I would assume it's done
>> using the pasteboard, but in that case I don't see why it wouldn't
>> work since both pasting text and images in MailMate should work.
>>
>> I'll note to try it out if/when I have time.
>>
>> --
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