catlover Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 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. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 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. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catlover Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 Thanks, guys , and I'll look into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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