Re: [Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-24 Thread erniew
Sven Neumann wrote: >>> GIMP does not use the terms CF_DIB nor CF_BITMAP. It would help if >>> you could explain what these are. >> >> They are Windows API constants used to identify types of data in the >> clipboard. > > That doesn't help as GIMP doesn't use the Windows API directly. This is

Re: [Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:04 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > GIMP does not use the terms CF_DIB nor CF_BITMAP. It would help if > > you could explain what these are. > > They are Windows API constants used to identify types of data in the > clipboard. One of these would be the first arg

Re: [Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-24 Thread erniew
Sven Neumann wrote: > GIMP does not use the terms CF_DIB nor CF_BITMAP. It would help if > you could explain what these are. They are Windows API constants used to identify types of data in the clipboard. One of these would be the first argument to the Windows API function SetClipboardData(), f

Re: [Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 04:01 +0100, Ed S. wrote: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523554 is the bug for this. I left > a trivial C program there that that can be used to look at clipboard. In my > tests Gimp's CF_DIB exactly matches MS-Paint's but Gimp's CF_BITMAP has bogus > value

[Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-23 Thread Ed S.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523554 is the bug for this. I left a trivial C program there that that can be used to look at clipboard. In my tests Gimp's CF_DIB exactly matches MS-Paint's but Gimp's CF_BITMAP has bogus values including bmType. I hypothesize that Word and Paint.NET re

Re: [Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-23 Thread Cristian Secară
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:06:22 +0100 (CET), Ed S. wrote: > I don't know if this helps, but the Windows XP clipboard viewer > (clipbrd.exe) says that Gimp is offering images of type "DIB Bitmap" > and "Bitmap". It appears there s a problem with the Bitmap format. If I try to view the Bitmap format w

Re: [Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-23 Thread Michael Schumacher
Ed S. wrote: > I've been pasting them into MS Paint and then copying them and pasting them > into Word. Is there any way to eliminate the need for a middleman to re-copy > the image? It would be very nice if you could try to figure this out. This problem is known, but so far no user of Microsoft

[Gimp-user] Pasting into MS Word from Gimp?

2008-11-22 Thread Ed S.
Is there a 'trick' for pasting images from Gimp into Microsoft Word? Images copied from Gimp (Windows version 2.6.1, but also with the last version I had) don't paste into Microsoft Word (2003). I have no problem pasting them into Microsoft Paint. I've been pasting them into MS Paint and then co