Re: Can't paste images from Snapz Pro into Word 2008

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Yeah, Phillip: But I am trying to find out what is ON THE CLIPBOARD?

The native format an application places on the clipboard when you copy will
determine whether Word will attempt to paste it or not.

Cheers


On 19/11/08 3:45 AM, in article e9dG6VaSJHA.4148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Phillip Jones, C.E.T." <pjones1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Picture is deceiving term when in reference to Snapz Pro X.


images can be saved as BMP. png, gif, jpg , pict, to name but a few.

The best versions are either jpg or png. If your saving for use in
Office set to save as PNG and you can't go wrong.

John McGhie wrote:
Hi Daniel:

"Picture" doesn't get us much further ahead, does it. I was hoping it would
say what KIND of picture :-)

I assume that it's actually a PICT. PICT is a combined vector and bitmap
format very similar to WMF. It's not one of Word's favourite formats, but
it IS supposed to work!! :-)

Cheers


On 17/11/08 10:27 PM, in article
C546CD50.48F7%daniel.nigrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Daniel Nigrin"
<daniel.nigrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply. This is all getting very weird:

1) Edit>Paste Special only gives the option to paste as a "Picture", but it
worked when I tried it! Which I'm almost positive I had tried before, and
it didn't. So then I tried...

2) Edit>Paste (or Control-V), and it worked again! So then I tried...

3) Quitting Word, rebooting computer - and it still works!

I don't think there was a recent Office 2008 update, and I know there wasn't
a Snapz Pro update either... So I'm wondering if any recent Mac OS updates
are responsible?? I looked in the Software Update log, and the only one
that seems potential is from 11/6, when I installed the v6.06 iPhoto update?

Regardless, I'm very happy it's working now!

Best,
Dan


On 11/16/08 3:45 AM, in article C54628EB.1ACD4%john@xxxxxxxxxxx, "John
McGhie" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Daniel:

When you do Edit>Paste Special... In Word, what do you see on the
clipboard?

I am asking simply because I suspect that Snapz Pro's native format is not
one that Word can import.

When you "paste" the originating application should offer a range of
formats, from which the destination application should select the richest
one.

But if Snaps is offering ".mov" by default, well... Word is not interested
in movies :-)

Cheers


On 15/11/08 5:19 AM, in article
C5432B6C.467C%daniel.nigrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Daniel Nigrin"
<daniel.nigrin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I'm using Word 2008, version 12.1.3 (080930), on Mac OS X 10.5.5,
together
with the screen capture application Snapz Pro, version 2.1.2.

Snapz Pro has the ability to capture a screenshot to the Mac clipboard,
for
pasting into other apps. Pasting into all other apps works fine, and
it
worked fine to paste into Word 2004. But now it won't paste into Word
2008; either using Command-V or Edit/Paste, nothing happens - no white
space inserted, nothing.

Any ideas or workarounds?

Thanks, Dan

Can you paste it into a graphics program such as Graphic Converter (free
download shareware) and Save As a jpeg...

Then open the saved jpeg, Select All, Copy and Paste *that* into Word?

Cumbersome, but I have a feeling it would work.

Will Snapz Pro let you save? It might cut a few steps out of the above.

Thanks for the replies - yes, Snapz Pro can create a file rather than
outputting to the clipboard, which can then be dragged to the Word
document
successfully. But ideally I would love to avoid this apporach - I'm
working
on creating documentation for a software application, that requires
zillions
of screenshots, and doing it this way slows me down quite a bit...



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