Editing Recipes

Editing a Recipe

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1. Photos Adding Recipe Photos
2. Recipe fields Recipe Fields
3. Categories Assign a Recipe to a Category
4. Suggest Categories Suggesting Categories
5. Photo link in the directions Inserting Recipe Text
6. Nutrition text and table Entering Nutrition Facts
7. Save button Adding a Recipe

Click in the upper right corner of the recipe screen, or right-click a recipe in the list and choose Edit. The recipe opens in the same form you use to add one.

Shortcut Press Ctrl-E on the recipe screen.

Deleting Recipes

There are several ways to delete a recipe:

1. From the recipes list: Right-click the recipe to reveal the context menu, and then press Delete.
2. From the recipe screen: Press the button (three dots, in the middle of the recipe toolbar) to reveal the recipe actions menu, and then press Delete.

Recipe Fields

These are the fields that you can enter when you create or edit a recipe:

Inserting Recipe Text

You can add formatting and images to the description, ingredients, directions, nutrition and notes fields.

When you begin editing those fields, formatting buttons appear beside the field's heading: Bold, Italic, Heading, Bulleted List, Numbered List, Add Link, Add Photo, Add Recipe, and Help, which shows examples of formatting. Hover over a button to see its name. If the window is too narrow for all of them, the rest are under the button at the end.

The Heading and list buttons add (or remove) # , - or 1. at the start of the selected lines. When you press Enter at the end of a list item, the next line continues the list. You can also press Ctrl-B for bold, Ctrl-I for italics, and Ctrl-K to add a link.

Paprika uses a modified form of Markdown for formatting:

A heading or a list has to start its own paragraph: leave a blank line before it when it follows other text.

Paprika looks up photos and recipes based on name; if multiple recipes exist with the same name, the first one retrieved will be opened. If multiple photos exist with the same name, the first one returned will be opened in the gallery. If the recipe or photo name changes, links will need to be updated.

Adding Recipe Photos

You can add multiple photos to a recipe, and photos are synced with your cloud data. You can add photo files of up to 20 MB; when you save the recipe, Paprika scales larger photos down to at most 3096 pixels on the longest side and 5 MB in size. The size of each photo is displayed in the edit photos view.

From the edit recipe view, click the photo at the top of the editor to see all photos associated with a recipe. The number of photos is shown under it. To add a photo from the filesystem, click Add Photo in the upper right and choose Choose File. Photos can also be dragged in from other apps, or copied to the clipboard. Once a photo is copied to the clipboard, the Clipboard option in the Add Photo menu becomes available. Choose that option to add the photo to the recipe.

When you're done with the photos, click the button in the upper left to return to the rest of the recipe.

Each photo displays its name and buttons to edit the name of the photo and delete the photo in the toolbar above the thumbnailed image.

The photo name is used to identify the photo when embedding it in text, and will also be displayed at the top of the photo gallery.

The thumbnail does not need to be one of the associated photos in the gallery. You can delete the thumbnail using the Delete Thumbnail button next to the photo of the thumbnail. This will not affect existing recipe photos.

You can also change the thumbnail by clicking the Choose Thumbnail button, then clicking the name of the photo you'd like to use as the thumbnail.

Drag to reorder photos and change their position in the photo gallery.