ScreenSteps copy-paste solution for Posterous and Gmail
ScreenSteps Desktop is an application to help create step-by-step instructions, quickly. ScreenSteps 2.7 beta introduces a new feature to copy a 'lesson' to the clipboard so that it can be pasted into an email. This means that lessons can be emailed by Apple Mail to Posterous rather than have to publish to WordPress, TypePad, etc or ScreenSteps Live.
For some strange reason, when I sent a lesson to Posterous only nine of the thirteen images appeared in the Posterous post (sometimes it's ten of thirteen). The other images became two HTML 'br' tags. Ae well, all the images appeared in a long string at the bottom of the post and not in place within the text with empty image boxes appearing in the text.
Update:
- The problem was being cause by having the Preference checked to 'Sync Image Name to Step Title' in ScreenSteps. This caused images to have titles longer than 74 characters. If an image in longer than 74 characters then Posterous doesn't show it.
- ScreenSteps made a work-around solution to this problem in the next beta release such that ScreenStep doesn't export step titles longer than 74 characters.
Solution: Use short Step Titles in ScreenSteps if the image names of synced to the step title.
After some perseverance, I discovered that if I emailed the copy and pasted lesson from Mail to Gmail (I used the Google Apps version of Gmail) and then Forwarded that email from Gmail to Posterous (removing the Forward text), the email appeared correctly, with every image in place, in my Posterous post. This is the post: Test - pasted ScreenSteps Mailed to Gmail Forwarded to Posterous
It's important to include the Subject line tag: ((nogallery)) in the email sent to Posterous, otherwise the images will be turned into a gallery album.
Notes:
- This revealed is that the ScreenSteps clipboard content does not paste into Gmail directly.
- If you *need* to email a lesson from a Google Mail / Gmail account then you can email to that account from Apple Mail then Forward from Google Mail to Posterous.
- ScreenSteps > Mail > Gmail > Posterous
