I often draft content for posting into Discourse in Google Docs. (Not simple messages, obviously, but more formal announcements and the like, where collaborative editing is essential.) Until Monday, I could select all in a Google Doc and paste into Discourse and get semantic text formatting (other t…

Hello Adam :wave: [image] Adam C. Engst: so my question is if there’s any way for Discourse to accept a combination of text and images all at once If you’re specifically talking about Google Docs, it’s not possible to our knowledge since their change: [image] Issue o…

Thanks—I’ll reply over there about Pages and Word, which don’t work either for pasting text and images. My question for this topic is what clipboard contents Discourse can accept? It seems to be able to do images on their own and HTML code as long as the images are linked and not embedded. Do you …

[image] Adam C. Engst: Do you know of a Mac equivalent to Clipview so I could investigate what different apps are putting on the clipboard? I’m trying Clipboard Viewer for Mac OS X and it seems to do the job. Here with my google doc content copy: [image]

Alternatively, you have this handy website: Clipboard Inspector Explore the content of your clipboard

Best way to paste styled text and images into Discourse composer

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) May 5, 2023, 5:49pm 5

I’m trying Clipboard Viewer for Mac OS X and it seems to do the job.

Here with my google doc content copy:

Topic		Replies	Views
Issue on posting: Can't copy images from Google Docs Support uploads	3	11310	May 5, 2023
Support for pasting rich text with inline images from Google Docs / Word / Pages Feature composer	2	186	October 7, 2025
Copy-pasting Discourse images content outside Discourse Support	3	886	September 20, 2022
Copy and paste image link without formatting Support	11	10957	November 7, 2024
HTML/RTF pasting Feature	74	14208	March 9, 2020

Best way to paste styled text and images into Discourse composer

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