Windows Live Writer Gets Image Editing Capabilities
It feels good to be back after a break of 5 days, but in those five days I had a lot of work to do, including finding and moving to a new Apartment to live in. Everything went smoothly and here I am back again blogging from my new apartment which has much more light and is spacious enough to setup a desk so that I can blog comfortably.
Getting back to business, Window Live Writer one of the most widely used blog editor (and my favorite too) has released a new Technical update which includes features like image cropping and tilting, more border styles for your images and support for centering images.
In addition to that you can also add image previewing effects from Lightbox right from the editor itself.
There a quite a few other enhancements in Windows Live Writer, here are the new features you will see in the technical preview.
Video and Image Publishing Enhancements
- Upload videos to Soapbox
- Image cropping and tilting
- Additional border styles
- Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects (like Slimbox, Smoothbox, and others)
- Support for centering images
Editing Enhancements
- Auto Linking
- Smart quotes/typographic characters
- Word count
UI Improvements
- Revised main toolbar
- Tabs for view switching
- Improved category control with search/filtering
Please note this is not a release version and can have bugs that may lead to crashes. If you are of the adventurous types and can’t wait to use the new features you can download the Windows Live Writer Technical Preview.
Via: [Writer Zone]
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I never knew about the auto linking feature in live writer,can you explain that ?
In WLW, when I enter the alternate text for an image, that text automatically becomes the image title, which is wrong. The alt and title should not be the same. Short of deleting each title in the source code, is there a way to override this?
@Glenda – Right now there is no way to get around with this, but I will look around and see if there is any way to disable WLW from adding the title attribute to links.