SavePict into Clipboard and supported formats

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Fri, 02/18/2011 - 09:12 am

Hi,

What file formats does SavePict support when copying into the clipboard?

The table in the Overview section "Chapter III-6 — Exporting Graphics (Windows)" in the Igor manual says EMF, BMP, PDF.
Later on it says in the "Exporting Graphics Via the Clipboard" section "From the Format pop-up menu, you can choose Windows Metafile, Enhanced Metafile, Bitmap, PostScript Enhanced Metafile and PNG Image."
Through experimenting I concluded that export into the png format also works.

Actually I wanted to use the EPS file format for the clipboard data (in addition to EMF which works good for normal Office software).
Would it be possible to add EPS export support? With files it works flawlessly already.

I also tried
SavePict as "_string_"
PutScrapText S_value

which no program could read properly.

Thanks,
Thomas

Btw I'm on Windows XP with Quicktime installed
I think any format that works with Export Graphics (edit menu) will work with SavePict to clipboard.

I have made a note to check and update the documentation regarding supported formats.

As far as I know, EPS is a file-only format and does not work with the clipboard.

February 18, 2011 at 11:01 am - Permalink

hrodstein wrote:
I think any format that works with Export Graphics (edit menu) will work with SavePict to clipboard.

I see. This menu entry was not available for one of my Graphs as it had an exterior subwindow attached.

hrodstein wrote:
As far as I know, EPS is a file-only format and does not work with the clipboard.

So it is not possible.

Thanks for the info,
Thomas

February 19, 2011 at 07:01 am - Permalink