GIF images supported in Pro?

Hi! Are gif files supported in Pro when including an image? I am a teacher and use text blaze to text my students. I am thinking about upgrading to Pro so I can include images. Are gifs supported in Pro or just jpg or png files? I use Google Voice for texting, if that matters.

Thanks!

Hi, and welcome to the forum! :slight_smile:

Text Blaze supports gifs but Google Voice texting may or may not. You can test it out by copying and pasting a gif into the Voice chat box and sending it.

If copying and pasting a gif there works, Text Blaze inserted gifs should too.

Hi, I am a teacher too. Gif work if you first save them as Gif image in your drive, and then include as a picture in your text using Blaze editor. I use Pro, but try on the free version.

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Thank you Scott, I appreciate that GIF's are available, abut the allowable GIF file sizes are just way too small and I'm having trouble embedding from Vimeo. Vimeo allows 6 seconds which is what I need most of the time to create a compelling illustration. Would love to increase the size to equal the high quality 6 seconds that Vimeo offers. 4 MB is for lower quality and 13.8 MB is for higher quality. At least a 4 MB would be great as it is a vimeo standard.

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Hi Cody,

You can consider using our {image} command to embed to the Vimeo image directly. Here's more information:

Let me know if that works for you.

I'm having a issue pulling the gif from google drive. This is what I'm using, and ideas whys it not working?

{image: f5e7f180-b6e1-0132-46bc-0e9062a7590a.gif - Google Drive}

Hi @Shawn_Miller Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile:

You would need to use the raw image link to make it work, which in this case is:

{image: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/1jgeJjWyzmlTAwdSXd6BgGUt2aJJx3aVG; height=100}

To get the raw image link, copy the file ID from your existing link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jgeJjWyzmlTAwdSXd6BgGUt2aJJx3aVG/view (file ID is in bold)

Then make this URL: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/fileID. This is mentioned in this StackOverflow post.

It's a bit sad Google doesn't expose the direct URL and we need to resort to hacks like this. Alternatively, as I'm sure you already know, you can reupload the image to Text Blaze using the Image option in the toolbar:

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