Free and anonymous storage of drawing files on the cloud
LAI4D users can save drawing files for free and without registration on the LAI4D’s server through the menu function Save server file of the designer. This function has certain limitations but is easy and immediate.
However there is another interesting option to save and retrieve drawing files for free and anonymously through some cloud services.
GitHub
NOTE: 2018/05/27
GitHub does not allow anymore the creation of anonymous gists so the user needs to sign in before.
Anyone can save a piece of code using the service GitHubGist and retrieve it later. Open the page http://gist.github.com.
Type a name for your file with the extension you want (.L4D is the official extension but you can use other). Write the source code of the drawing file that you can obtain using the ‘View source’ button of the bottom-left corner group of buttons in the LAI4D widget where you have been working your drawing. Then press the button ‘Create public gist’ (or secret if you want) at the GitHubGist page. This will save your code showing a new page that offers a permalink to the file.
What you need is the link of the button ‘Raw’ which directly drives to the text file. In order to compose an URL to share the LAI4D drawing copy that link and paste it inside the following string replacing the text “PASTE HERE”:
http://widget.lai4d.org/lai4d_viewer.html?{{file}{PASTE HERE}}This is a live sample: github_ paperairplane
PASTEBIN
A very similar approach is offered by PASTEBIN. Open the page https://pastebin.com.
Write the source code of the drawing and type a name for your file. Then press the button ‘Create new Paste’. This will save your code showing a new page that offers a permalink to the file.
What you need is the link of the button ‘raw’ which directly drives to the text file. Compose the URL as explained before.
This is a live sample: pastebin_ paperairplane
