AffDesigner Mac : Paste from clipboard not always working

[catlover]

Can someone please enlighten me why a simple  cmd C + cmd V doesn't always paste the copied item ?

Example : I have a vector object created in another application (app = live)  >selected it >copied it to clipboard

and Pasted it straight into a blank document in Affinity designer, without having saved the original object as SVG or any such fileformat.

So, just the object itself, select, copy & paste.

I always thought the clipboard was independent of application used  and served as a sort of go-between ?

Thanks for any thoughts on the matter.

C.L.

 

[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, catlover said:

I always thought the clipboard was independent of application used  and served as a sort of go-between ?

 

The target application is completely dependent on the formats that the developers of the source application have chosen to make available via the system clipboard.

[R C-R]

On a Mac, you can see what the clipboard contains by switching to Finder & from the Edit menu choosing "Show Clipboard." Experiment a bit with the following setting in Affinity enabled & disabled & with selecting different object types or items in Affinity & in other apps & you will see that the clipboard isn't as simple as it seems.

[catlover]

Thanks, guys ,  and I'll look into it.