[Xquartz-dev] 1.4.2-apple20 - copy-paste

[George Peter Staplin]

Quoted Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at berkeley.edu>:

> Yep... that seems to be the problem... Photoshop is not giving us
> TIFF... we'll have to handle PICT to get its data.


Agreed.  Thanks for the details Dave.

--George

> On Oct 27, 2008, at 09:01, Dave Ray wrote:
>
>> I compiled the NSPasteboard_types app at your request and ran it to  
>>   report the Pasteboard file types.
>>
>> When I open a JPEG image and copy it in X11-Gimp, I get:
>> type public.tiff
>> type NeXT TIFF v4.0 pasteboard type
>> type com.apple.pict
>> type Apple PICT pasteboard type
>>
>>
>> When I open the same file in Preview and copy I get:
>> type public.tiff
>> type NeXT TIFF v4.0 pasteboard type
>> type dyn.agu8yww4xqz0gn25yrf106wpsq31u
>> type IKSelectionInfo
>> type com.apple.pict
>> type Apple PICT pasteboard type
>>
>>
>> When I open the same file in Photoshop and copy I get:
>> type com.apple.pict
>> type Apple PICT pasteboard type
>> type dyn.agk8zg6xdna
>> type CorePasteboardFlavorType 0x53726350
>>
>>
>> -Dave