I don't think TARGET=_blank is regarded as a pop-up John.
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Create a placeholder image the same dimensions as your remote hotlinked image and using the name button give it a unique name.
Save your HTML.
Open the .htm file in notepad and find the unique name (ctrl+F), change the <img src="*"
EG:
<a name="EXTERNAL IMAGE" ><img src="index.htm_files/0.png" border="0" alt="" style="left: 29px; top: 53px; width: 551px; height: 91px; position: absolute;"/></a>
change to
<a name="EXTERNAL IMAGE" ><img src="http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/misc/vbulletin3_logo_white.gif" border="0" alt="" style="left: 29px; top: 53px; width: 551px; height: 91px; position: absolute;"/></a>
To insert external image you have to create a placeholder object (with correct size and positioning). Then add a name to it:
img="http://www.myimages.com/image.jpg"
That's it. Entered link will be used in the exported html.
You may need to update your html filter in order to make it work. If so, download it form this message: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showpost...30&postcount=9
Hope it helps.
I have had some success with:-
* stripping out all the header info and leaving just the content within the <body> section
* uploading all my images to my own server and changing all image paths to my server address instead
* changing the first instance of position:absolute; (in the first <div> straight after where the <body> declaration) to position:relative
* inserting the above html into an ebay listing
See my ebay listing:-
[sorry, no links to eBay auctions/shops, please] that I created with this method.
I have built this facility into my XXFX application, I will release a new version very soon.
The main thing is that any javascript will not work as it is referenced in the <head> (header) section from the html. Obvioustly with an ebay listing you are already in the body section. I am not sure what javascript can be declared in the html body area and also what ebay will allow in any case. Perhaps some expert here will enlighten me on this?
also anything such as a background declared within the <body> tag will also be lost.
Sculptex: It looks great. I'll print your email, follow your steps (I believe the IMPORTANT info was position:relative) and post my result.
I'm actually planning to do some eBay listing today, so this works out.
Covoxer,
I'm having an issue FINDING the htmlfiler.dll file. Where should i look for it? I did a search and came up with nothing.
I even did a DOS search using /s but didn't see anything at all.
D:\Program Files\Xara\Xara Xtreme Pro 4\Filters
I found this file , HTMLfilter.dll in the above folder.
Just a quick note about the htmlfilter.dll change.
I used it and it worked fine. Then I created a new document and it didn't work at all.
I spent the last 2-3 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong until I realized that I had rebooted in the meantime.
I re-extracted the files and it worked again!
YAY!
Starting to feel like I'm talking to myself... consecutive posts.
It seems as if the filter works once per open document.
I've had to reload it each time I need to export my HTML otherwise it shows images as PNG's with names of img="http...../etc."