My colleague Down Under, Lee Hopkins, has not been as pleased with Windows Live Writer as I have been. Strange, really, because I’ve not had quite the same issues as he has with graphics. For instance, the one to the right is in at the original size, i.e. “as is” and looks to me quite like the original. Now I did not do anything to it like give it a drop shadow or a box around it, which would have resized the graphic and changed it a bit.
Lee, I’ll suggest that you click on the graphic and then on the Image tab under “Borders” set it to “None”. That combined with ensuring that the image size is set to “Original” on the Advanced tab should give you “as is” size you are seeking. At least, it does for me.
As to posting in the future, I’ll try that out with this post. I would wonder if it is a function of the blogging platform you are using. Lee is hosting his own WordPress – I am using hosted TypePad. We’ll see. I’ll set this with a date and time of today at 6:46pm, about 1.5 hours from now. Let’s see if it uses TypePad’s queueing to hold the post or if it posts immediately. (Hmmm… I wonder what Timezone TypePad operates on.)
Here goes the experiment…
UPDATE: Nope, it didn’t work. Lee’s right in that forward-dating a blog post does not appear to work in the current Windows Live Writer Build.
I’ll note that I, too, used to have this capability in Semagic, but Semagic queued it locally and then posted it to the blogging service (assuming Semagic was running at the time the item was to be posted – otherwise it posted it when it was next started).
G’day Dan,
No, even if I leave the image ‘as is’ via all the adjustments one can make in all the different tabs, it still optimises it again.
Hey Dan,
I had a problem with Live Writer earlier and i posted it on their Group page and I got help very quickly on it. Plus, since it sounds like a feature request, it appears based on the comments that they are paying attention to it so maybe in the next version it will be added.
Helpin’ out wherever I can.
-Steve
http://groups.msn.com/windowslivewriter/home
This is entirely dependent on your blog provider–we just pass a publish date and it’s up to the server to decide what that means.
However, we have a feature that is supposed to warn when your blog doesn’t support future posting–but TypePad isn’t in the list of blogs that don’t. Thanks, I’ll have it added!
@Steve – Thanks for the info. Based on the subsequent response from Joe it looks like my request is in for now, but I’ll keep that in mind for the future.
@Joe – Thanks for the reply and yes, it would be good to get a warning. TypePad *does* have the ability to schedule posts in the future through the web UI, but perhaps that’s not available in the API.
As I noted, my previous offline editor, Semagic, solved this by queuing the post *locally* on my PC. Obviously it had to be up and running at the posting time, but for one of my PCs that I keep on normally this was not a problem. Anyway, it’s a possible feature to consider adding to WLW.
Thanks to both of you for the comments,
Dan