Figures/Tables from attachments

skreisel

Some of the closed-source software allow you to directly attach extracted figures/tables (i.e. copy/paste) from the an attached PDF under the respective citation. We can do the same in Zotero - but have to go by a detour, first copying the figure/table from the PDF, saving it to a file and then attaching the image as a file. Interestingly there is a way to copy/paste into Zotero -> open a note and paste. Unfortunately that doesn't lead to an attachment but rather adds code to the note (e.g. <img src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAsAAAAHCAI ...), though the image renders fine -> its just not possible to use that image thereafter, no way to copy it back out of the note and into a presentation...
So this is more of a query than a feature request (though it would be cool to just highlight a citation and press ctrl-v and have the image processed as an attachment for that cite): Probably a TinyMCE thing -> how do I get the image back into use?
Cheers

adamsmith

you can't. In fact you shouldn't use images in notes right now since they also break syncing. We don't, as of now, have a solution for this, sorry.

skreisel

There probably is another reason for not doing so -> would bloat the database.
Thank's for the comment - so I'll move the "copy/paste image as attachment" to the feature request section ;)
Best

adamsmith

no need for a feature request, there are two open issues on this:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/241
https://github.com/zotero/zotero/pull/18
(note that github issues are for developer use, so any discussion should stay on the forums)

skreisel

One can trick the Swiss army knife -> i.e. ZotFile - into doing the above. ZotFile Preferences -> Advanced Settings -> Other Advanced Settings -> Only work with following filetypes: add your image ending, e.g. *.png.
Using Greenshot as my screen clipper, I change its default storage location to the ZotFile watched folder.
Not a one-fits-all solution, but better than code jibberish!