Hiding images when working in oXygen

[ltellis]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to oXygen. I'm trying to edit a topic with a lot of images in it, but it is going painfully slowly. Is there a way for me to hide the images in Author view so that things will go faster? I know I can do it in Text view, but I'm not as comfortable working with that view as I am with author. I'm hoping there's an easy way to do this without going into the CSS.

Thanks

[Radu]

Hi,

I'm afraid we do not have such a setting in our preferences. I added an internal issue with your request and we'll consider adding such a setting. Probably if such a setting would exist, instead of each image you would have a placeholder and you could double click that to open the image in the image viewer, right? In this way you could still see a certain image if you need this visual information when writing content around it.

Until then you will need to do this via the CSS.
If you are using the DITA standard you would need a custom CSS with a selector inside something like this:

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*[class~="topic/image"] {

  content: "[" attr(href) "]" ! important;

  color:red;

}

The custom CSS can be added either as an alternate CSS (available via the drop-down CSS selector) or as a default used CSS:
http://blog.oxygenxml.com/2016/10/custo ... iting.html

By the way, could you tell us more about the performance problem when editing a document with many referenced images?
What version of Oxygen are you using?
Are the images located on a remote server or on the local disk drive? What type of images are referenced in the XML? PNG, JPEG, svgs, etc?

Regards,
Radu

[ltellis]

I have noticed that the more images I add, the slower it goes. The images I am using are primarily jpgs, pngs, and tifs. They are on a remote server. I check the oXygen topics out and work on them on my local computer and then check them back in to the server.

[ltellis]

I am using oXygen version 15.2.

[Radu]

Hi,

The most recent Oxygen version is 18.1.
We made significant improvements to the ways in which we cache remote referenced images in Oxygen 17.0, about 2 years ago.
So if you have the possibility to upgrade to a more recent Oxygen version, I think it should at least remove some of the problems you have.
Or as you proposed you can use a custom CSS to hide images.

Regards,
Radu

[Liam]

This would be a very useful feature. We too are experiencing significant latency issues when working with an XML file containing numerous SVG images. Having a Preference to show an icon instead of the graphic is a very useful feature that other editors have, especially when connected to a remote CCMS. You have to wait for all SVGs to download and display before you can begin editing, and this requires us to set the Timeout higher than 20.

[Radu]

Hi Liam,

Thanks for the request, we have two possibilities, either to add a checkbox to completely skip loading images on load (and maybe add an on-demand load action) or to load the images on a thread, when for example scrolling down in the document. If we make any progress on this I will update this forum thread.
For now you would need to customize the CSS for editing, as I outlined above.

Regards,
Radu

[maryanthony]

We author topics that contain a lot of images. We need an option to hide these images.
Any update on this request that has been in the backlog for some time?

[Radu]

Hi Mary,

Pasting the internal issue ID for this request below for future reference:
EXM-50315 Setting to skip loading images in the Author mode

We have not done this issue as it's been asked only on this thread, so this is not something to help a lot of our user base.
Also as I described above, you can create a custom CSS for DITA editing which replaces all images with their @href value:
post41225.html#p41225
Such a custom CSS can be added as a part of a DITA framework customization and can be used as an optional CSS layer and appear in the Styles drop down menu so that one can check the custom style which hides images after the topic is opened:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... tyles.html

Regards,
Radu