Jose-Moreno
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2 years ago @John-Hollingum Hi John, thank you for your report. It is strange that copy /pasting is failing with some images and not others. In this case most of the heavy lifting is done by the original software (i.e Affinity) and each app seems to have a different requirement to properly copy to clipboard but overall they all should work as expected.
For example using Inkscape you can copy vectors and rasterize-paste them into Pencil2d without any issue, however they must be inside the canvas document over at Inkscape otherwise it won't work.
In order for us to test this out, Is it possible that you can share with us a few samples of the images that work and those that particularly don't work so we can test them out? I don't have Affinity Designer but I used to use Serif's Photoplus back in the day (it's predecessor) so I could download a trial to test.
Since this is a public forum if you can't share them openly due to non-disclosure restrictions please upload them on a google drive account and send a folder sharing invitation to pencil2danimation(at)gmail.com (at) -> @ so we can view them through the project's drive account and would only keep them until the testing has been concluded (and the issue resolved).
I personally have tested various images from work pasting over from apps like: Clip Studio Paint, Krita, Inkscape, Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Animate CC and other apps. The only one that has have given poor results is Animate CC but that is actually expected since their clipboard handling has been known to be terrible since the age of Flash (often times it doesn't even work properly between Adobe apps 😕 ).
scribblemaniac
John-Hollingum
MrStevns
Issue Summary
Some clipboard selections from Affinity Photo will not paste into bitmap key frames
### Actual Results Some attempts to paste selections in the clipboard into bitmap key frames produced no visible result whether or not there was a selection marquee currently on the frame. The clipboard content pasted sensibly into other applications like Pages. ### Expected Results I had expected the images to appear somewhere in the workspace. ### Video or Image Reference ### Steps to reproduce This is the tricky bit. As far as I can tell, the steps used to create the error can produce correct results. That is, I open a jpeg file in Affinity Photo, I make a selection in the image I then paste it into a bitmap frame. Just cmd-c cmd-v. While some jpegs in Affinity work absolutely consistently, other images fail quite consistently. All the selections from Affinity paste into other applications as expected. If you can think of any significant differences in the source images I can dig a bit deeper, but it looks to me like some jpegs work and others don't. ### System Information + Pencil2D Version: Version: 0.6.6 commit: ac415788dfb21f66e1cbcc1ad60443225a2d0e37 date: 2021-02-17_13:03:37 + Operating System: Operating System: macOS 10.15 CPU Architecture: x86_64 Qt Version: 5.15.2 + RAM Size: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 + Graphics Tablet: