New from clipboard in pdf

[mia Taugts]

If you open a pdf file in AP, cut or copy a section, the wrong canvas size is used in the function "New from Clipboard".
Unlike tif files, the copied section is not created and pasted as a document, but the entire pdf page with all its contents is created as a new document.
Only if you export the pdf into an image file like png, tif or similar and then use it, the function works correct.
This is very irritating

[walt.farrell]

How are you doing the selection? And what kind of selection are you making?

It works correctly for me, though the new file is about 3px larger than I was expecting. But that was making a marquee selection using the Move Tool. If you try to make selections using any of the pixel-based selection tools it's easy to have the Copy fail completely, and leave the clipboard unchanged. (Check the Edit menu, and make sure that Copy is available.)

Screenshots, a video, and/or a sample PDF and more instructions on how and what to select would help.

[mia Taugts]

Sample File Glas "WiGa.pdf" ist atached

The working steps are

1. Explorer File "Glas WiGa.pdf" "Open with" " Affinity Photo"
2. The Open window (see pdf01.png) is displayed
3. OK opens and displays the pdf
4. I select Layer (Bild)
5. I selsect Tool Rectangle Mask and New, the i create the Rectangle Mask (see pdf02.png)
6. Following "Copy" and "New from Clipboard" creates a new Tab "Unbenannt" in the same sice as Source-File (see pdf04.png)
7. Following "Cut" and "New from Clipboard" creates a new Tab "Unbenannt" in the same sice as Source-File, the page is empty (see pdf03.png)

Only if you export the pdf into an image file like png, tif or similar and then use it, the function works correct.

Regards
mia Taugts

Glas WiGa.pdf

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, mia Taugts said:

Sample File Glas "WiGa.pdf" ist atached

The working steps are

1. Explorer File "Glas WiGa.pdf" "Open with" " Affinity Photo"
2. The Open window (see pdf01.png) is displayed
3. OK opens and displays the pdf
4. I select Layer (Bild)
5. I selsect Tool Rectangle Mask and New, the i create the Rectangle Mask (see pdf02.png)
6. Following "Copy" and "New from Clipboard" creates a new Tab "Unbenannt" in the same sice as Source-File (see pdf04.png)
7. Following "Cut" and "New from Clipboard" creates a new Tab "Unbenannt" in the same sice as Source-File, the page is empty (see pdf03.png)

Only if you export the pdf into an image file like png, tif or similar and then use it, the function works correct.

Thanks.

You have an (Image) (or, in German, (Bild)) layer. You must Rasterize it before you can work with its individual pixels.

You can use Layer > Rasterize... from the menu, or you can right-click on it in the Layers panel and choose Rasterize... from its context menu.

[mia Taugts]

Thank you

Works fine

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.