Issues with placing images

[MikeTO]

Three issues.

1. If you place multiple images with copy/paste from macOS Finder, only the last issue will be placed, the others are ignored. You can drag and drop multiple images but not copy/paste multiple.
2. If you place an image with copy/paste from macOS Finder the document's prefer linked setting will be ignored and it will be placed as embedded.
3. This last one is more of a feature request. If I drag and drop an image onto a text frame, I expect to see an insertion point drop cursor like MS Word and to have the image placed inline. The only object that currently accepts an image drop is a picture frame. Alternatively, dropping an image onto a text frame could place it inline at the current text cursor position.

Thanks

[stokerg]

Hi @MikeTO,

I've run this past QA and we all agree that the 3 of the points raised are Feature Requests and not bugs.  For numbers 1 and 2 I've explained a bit further in regards to these:

On 7/14/2023 at 4:53 PM, MikeTO said:

If you place multiple images with copy/paste from macOS Finder, only the last issue will be placed, the others are ignored. You can drag and drop multiple images but not copy/paste multiple.

I was only able to find that Pages allowed for pasting multiple images from Finder and even then it didn't do a great job of this, it pasted them pretty much straight on top of each other.  every other app I tried, only allowed for 1 image to be pasted.

 

On 7/14/2023 at 4:53 PM, MikeTO said:

• If you place an image with copy/paste from macOS Finder the document's prefer linked setting will be ignored and it will be placed as embedded.

 All Affinity knows at this point, is something is on the clipboard and not the location on the Mac where it came from, so by embedding it, it avoids Affinity having to link to a temporary file, which the OS could get rid of at any point and then trigger the Missing Linked Resources error when you open that file.

I'll get this post moved over to Feature Requests.  

 

[MikeTO]

14 minutes ago, stokerg said:

 All Affinity knows at this point, is something is on the clipboard and not the location on the Mac where it came from, so by embedding it, it avoids Affinity having to link to a temporary file, which the OS could get rid of at any point and then trigger the Missing Linked Resources error when you open that file.

Oh that makes sense for embedded. I used to embed a zillion images in PowerPoint decks with copy/paste so my muscle memory is to copy/paste images into my working document. With a publishing app I want to link and just expected it to link, forgetting that the clipboard wouldn't know the original location. So definitely not a bug and not even a feature request, it's just not possible. I will have to retrain my brain.

Thanks