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HolgerD
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January 27, 2011
Question

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
Community Expert
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?

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Anonymous
August 1, 2011

Hello,

Perhaps due to a lot of bad experiences with the windows clipboard, I will always avoid it when possible to use it for graphics, personal quirk, do not mind.

Just to doublecheck: I have several CP5-projects open for the moment and have been copying/pasting about 10 graphics between them in all possible scenarios without being able to repro the described issue. Just wondering if it is really a CP5-bug or due to other causes or a combination? But now I revert to my own work flows without using the clipboard that I do not trust at all as told.

Lilybiri


On a similar vein, I am just testing out CP 5.5 after previously using CP 2 and 3. In these older versions, I was able to copy an image from powerpoint and paste it into my project. It's very important for me to be able to do that because the images I use in CP are Microsoft office clipart and selecting them through powerpoint and pasting them into CP means I don't have to save each and every image I try to use. I have created more than 65 projects with 25-50 images each, so you can imagine how much easier it is to just copy and paste from powerpoint rather than save each image to a folder through save as image in powerpoint, and then retrieve it from that folder through CP. Am I right that what I used to do can no longer be done in CP 5.5 or is there another easier way to do this that circumvents saving as an image and then retrieving with CP?

Thank you very much for your help!

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