Ayelen_Rives reported an issue where images copied from Google Docs no longer paste correctly into Discourse posts, instead showing as text [image]. Jessii explained this is likely due to a security feature in Google Docs that prevents direct image copying. While images from other sources like Microsoft Word or Pages should work, adamengst noted they are experiencing issues with those as well, getting either nothing or empty boxes. Ayelen_Rives thanked Jessii for the clarification and acknowledged the need to find alternative solutions.
Hi everybody!
I searched this through but couldn’t find anything already published.
I’m trying to upload images to posts, copying them from Google docs already created. Before, I was able to copy them without problems, but since the last Discourse update I can’t copy images anymore.
I can paste Google Docs images in other platforms without issues. I can also publish images on Discourse posts copied from other online platforms and there is no problem. The issue only happens with the google docs images, and, instead of the image it pastes the text [image] .
Is there anything I can do to solve this? Any ideas of what can be causing this?
Hey Ayelen! I’ve seen this recently as well and unfortunately you won’t be able to copy/paste images from a Google Doc into your community. It looks to be a security feature that Google has implemented. Zapier has an article that dives into this a bit. You should still be able to copy/paste from other sources like Pages, Microsoft Word, Pinterest, etc.
Can anyone else get text and images copied from Pages or Word (on the Mac) to paste into Discourse and appear? I either get nothing for an image or an empty box.
