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HolgerD
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January 27, 2011
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CP5: Copy and paste of images doesn't work

  • January 27, 2011
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Hi,

this may sound silly, but I'm not able to copy and paste an image from Photoshop into CP5 (german version).

In older versions of Captivate I often copied an imgage in PS and pasted it simply via CTRL+V into the Captivate-Slide.

With Captivate 5 this doesn't seem to work any more, it simply ignores the "Paste"-command. Copy and Paste only works for images, that are copied within Captivate.

It's not an Windows-Problem, Copy and Paste between Photoshop and all other applications works fine.

Does anyone have an idea what's wrong?

best regards

Holger

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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January 27, 2011

Hello,

Please do import the Photoshop file, that is a much better way because you can choose which layers you want to keep and you do get all the layers as separate PNG-images in the library. It will also be possible to edit the PS-file from within CP. You can import directly to the stage but I do prefer to import all of the PS-file to the library.

Lilybiri

happie_97
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happie_97Community Expert
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May 2, 2011

Hi,

I'm having a similar issue, except Captivate is not copying and pasting correctly from one Captivate 5 project to another Captivate 5 project. I can do it once and it keeps the first object that I copy and won't paste anything else. I even tried resetting the clipboard outside of Captivate by copying from notepad and it still only pasted the first thing that I copied. Do you have a possible solution for that?

RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 17, 2020

Images saved as SVG? Hmmm, I thought they were strictly for Vector. I'll have to play with that one.

 

And, I made a mistake above... when I paste screenshots (or whatever) from the clipboard, they go straight into the Library and sit there as "Clipboard####...png" I think I was thinking you meant "Assets" not "Library"

 

And yes, the images aren't perfectly 100% the final size but you keep that in mind (and correct the extremely scaled images) but sometimes it's worth the speed hit for the kind of project you're working on.


Maybe the 'speed hit' isn't as great when you factor in all the lost time when the shortcut lands you in trouble.

 

The recommended method of inserting images doesn't really take that much longer.  I've never had problems doing things that way.  

 

But it's your call how you want to gamble.

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