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3 years ago Yes, I think #6946 was the last change to how we output images in ICML... and I remember it involved a lot of trial and error :P
Back when I implemented images originally I didn't think there would be much use for images inside the text beyond tiny inline-images. And people would generally place the images in InDesign instead of having them part of the markdown file... but maybe that was a simplistic assumption...
The first step would be to find out exactly what the XML should look like... can we simply wrap the image in an element and keep everything inside as it?
Shrinks99
nmueller18
ptram
jgm
Problem
When converting a file from Markdown → ICML I can't seem to change the size of images in InDesign with graphics frame styles. Setting a value of
{width=10cm}within my markdown file produces the expected result in InDesign, however, no graphics frame style is explicitly created to accomplish this unlike how Pandoc handles text styles (which works very nicely!) Instead, Pandoc seems to take the image's hard-coded width and height values and apply it as an override to the default graphics frame style.When no explicit width value is set Pandoc's fallback is to look at each image's resolution and set width & height values accordingly. This is also set to be applied as an override to the default graphics frame style.
Because these overrides are set with absolute values I cannot modify the graphics frame style to handle images sizing dynamically within InDesign, the only option appears to be to add fixed image frame sizes to each image within Markdown or break the link to my markdown file and handle the layout manually.
Examples
When set to a fixed width size in Markdown that width is carried over and images behave as expected.
When no width value is set Pandoc falls back on the file's dimensions, this can result in overset images. Note the override styling of the default [Basic Graphics Frame]+ in both screenshots which cannot be removed, as such both of these images cannot be effectively styled within InDesign.
ICML Images Issues.zip
All files needed to reproduce the examples above should be included in this zip. Create a fresh 8.5x11" document and place the generated ICML within a text frame.
Proposed Solution
Instead of relying on the absolute sizing fallback for encoding image sizes in ICML, a generalized graphics frame style could be created with some sensible defaults in the same way that paragraph styles are currently handled in the ICML writer? This way image sizing could be dynamic instead of set with fixed default values that cannot be changed without unlinking and manually fixing the sizing issues.
Caveats & other notes