Copying images from PowerPoint/word and pasting into Affinity Designer reduces quality of the pasted image

[tsbatth]

Hello,

I have noticed that copying images that are contained in Microsoft Powerpoint presentations or Microsoft Word documents and pasting them into Affinity Designer significantly reduced the quality of the image. The best way I found around this (after messing with a bunch of settings such as color formats, color profiles, DPI, pixels, Millimeters etc...) was simply to use the snipping tool of the image in powerpoint and paste that into Affinity designer. This did not reduce the image quality. But this seems to be a rather silly thing to work around.

Best,

T

[MikeTO]

Hi, this is Microsoft's issue, not Serif's. I'm on a Mac so my answer will be Mac specific, but MS Office apps copy images in multiple formats to the public pasteboard (clipboard) including PNG, TIFF, and PDF. Apps like Affinity and Photoshop can choose from one of these formats but unfortunately they're not full resolution once they're over a certain size. The MS Office apps copy the full resolution image only to a private pasteboard in a proprietary GVML format. Affinity can't access that private clipboard. I verified this with a pasteboard viewer utility. I assume something similar is happening on Windows.

Cheers