Re: Strip XMP Packet from the end of binary image data

2019-02-01 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Richard, i have no idea > Fireworks CS6 has been discontinued for years so I can't really even ask, But this bug turned into a feature because my clipboard tool now correclty saves clipboard data as reusable objects that keep their styles and effects and meta data in at least 1 adobe program t

Re: Strip XMP Packet from the end of binary image data

2019-02-01 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Stephen Barncard wrote: > On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:19 Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Reason #233 why PDF must die. ;) > > And replaced with? Anything useful on modern devices. You've never read my rants here on this? Today I'll let others make the argument for me:

Re: Strip XMP Packet from the end of binary image data

2019-02-01 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Tom Glod wrote: > The problem for me was that Fireworks was updating the clipboard data > every second ..effectively changing the content of the clipboard even > if it didn't change..The image was not changing , but the meta > data was. so I had a runaway "Clipboard changing message" ... As

Re: Strip XMP Packet from the end of binary image data

2019-02-01 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
The problem for me was that Fireworks was updating the clipboard data every second ..effectively changing the content of the clipboard even if it didn't change..The image was not changing , but the meta data was. so I had a runaway "Clipboard changing message" . it was a nightmare ...

Re: Strip XMP Packet from the end of binary image data

2019-02-01 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
And replaced with? On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:19 Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > Copy text from an OCR'd PDF sometime and paste it into a Livecode > > field. You may find the number of characters is more than are visible. > > Rea

Re: Strip XMP Packet from the end of binary image data

2019-02-01 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Copy text from an OCR'd PDF sometime and paste it into a Livecode > field. You may find the number of characters is more than are visible. Reason #233 why PDF must die. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and

Re: Strip XMP Packet from the end of binary image data

2019-02-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Adobe does a LOT of crap when copying to the clipboard. Copy text from an OCR'd PDF sometime and paste it into a Livecode field. You may find the number of characters is more than are visible. This is what inspired me to write my cleanAscii function which filters out all chars before 32 and afte