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Import web site snapshots or any URL as an image

Starting from version 1.4 of II2LN, you can import a snapshot of a web page just as easy as you can import and manipulate real images!

What is a snapshot? Very briefly it is an image of the web site at the time of the capture.

In fact, any place where you normally would specify an image name, such as in the functions ImportImage, ImportImageAsResource or AttachImage, you can now use an URL instead! Any URL staring with the prefix http:// or file:// will do. You can also use URLs in import options such as OverlayImage.

The downsize is that the import operation take a bit longer, since we have to connect to the internet and retrieve the web pages. However, you have many new import options to let you control the web grabbing process.

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The main purpose

Import any kind of image

Import to rich text fields or use variables

Store image variables in fields

Manipulate the image

Extract EXIF and IPTC information

Manipulate EXIF and IPTC information