I recently selected XnView MP as my default viewer (Windows 10). I almost immediately switched back to XnView. When I select all and copy with XnView I can paste the image in MSWord or email. When I do the same with XnView MP I get get it's explorer address. There are many settings in both and I may have missed one in XnView MP. I love both and the shell is invaluable for making icons and noting size for Web work.
Mike
Copy & Paste
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Re: Copy & Paste
I just tried what you described myself (using XnViewMP 1.9.3), and it worked fine for me. This might have more to do with Word than XnViewMP.
Word has multiple ways to paste, and it is up to Word which way it uses. Try this:
First, instead of just pasting with Ctrl-V, there is a Paste icon on the ribbon, and you should see an down-arrow below it. Click the down arrow, and you will see options for the paste operation you're trying to do. Try something different there, like Paste Special, and see what happens. See if one of the alternate ways to paste yields the actual image.
Second, there are also copy/paste options in the Advanced options area of Word that might be impacting what you're doing.
Last, as a test, try some non-MS Office application. Try Paint, for example. Or another image viewer, like Irfanview. Do your copy from XnViewMP as usual, then paste into Paint or Paste into Irfanview. If the image shows up correctly, it's not an XnViewMP problem.
When an application puts something on the clipboard in Windows, it places the data itself, and it also has to provide information about the TYPE of data it is (like a bitmap, or image, or plain text). Windows uses this to facilitate data interchange. If Word is trying to do something clever, it might be ignoring the data type and pasting what should be an image (bitmap) as a reference to it (which would be the filename).
I hope this helps...
Word has multiple ways to paste, and it is up to Word which way it uses. Try this:
First, instead of just pasting with Ctrl-V, there is a Paste icon on the ribbon, and you should see an down-arrow below it. Click the down arrow, and you will see options for the paste operation you're trying to do. Try something different there, like Paste Special, and see what happens. See if one of the alternate ways to paste yields the actual image.
Second, there are also copy/paste options in the Advanced options area of Word that might be impacting what you're doing.
Last, as a test, try some non-MS Office application. Try Paint, for example. Or another image viewer, like Irfanview. Do your copy from XnViewMP as usual, then paste into Paint or Paste into Irfanview. If the image shows up correctly, it's not an XnViewMP problem.
When an application puts something on the clipboard in Windows, it places the data itself, and it also has to provide information about the TYPE of data it is (like a bitmap, or image, or plain text). Windows uses this to facilitate data interchange. If Word is trying to do something clever, it might be ignoring the data type and pasting what should be an image (bitmap) as a reference to it (which would be the filename).
I hope this helps...
