https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124085
--- Comment #32 from Armin Le Grand <[email protected]> --- Hi John, thanks for your comments. Yes, copying the graphic data from another app can be compared to e.g. copying text from Notepad to writer; you just do not know anything about the original format and if 'all' was copied to the clipboard or only some lines. Its similar for graphics, unfortunately. So - yes - the user needs to know here what he is doing, there is no way an app reading the clipboard can find out if it originally e.g. was a jpeg. At that point the original compression is already gone and even if knowing, re-compressing of the pure pixel data will decrease quality. It is also no option to 'assume' jpeg with big files due to the simple fact that jpeg has no 'holes' (transparency). If it was one fine; if not such aspects may be lost. I think what the OS producers *could* do is to provide a data type 'original' for the clipboard, that would contain the mime type and the raw data as in the file it comes from (if available), in the format it comes from. Then at least e.g. pixel modifying apps could put this to clipboard when the user had used CTRL-A, CTRL-C; this would be a major change for OSes, other apps and - last and in this change least - users of this data like AOO...Sigh. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
