Copy and paste into AppleWorks

[Simon Heywood]

Kiran,

I think the problem is probably to do with transparency.  When doing, 
edit>select all, then edit > copy in OG and then pasting into 
appleworks transparent areas are coming in black, i.e. namely the 
background.  Otherwise it works ok ish.

10.2.3, Quicktime 6.1, OG 2.1 (v34.15)

Regards,

Si.

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:39 PM, Kiran Wagle wrote:

> I can't copy a drawing and paste it into AppleWorks.  I get a black 
> square.  Anyone else seeing this behavior?  (The Finder's clipboard 
> also shows just a black square.)
>
> I managed to do this a few months ago, but it seems to be broken now. 
> The new drawings in the file can't be pasted, and the old drawings in 
> the same file can't be pasted either.  A friend is using the same 
> versions of OG and OS X (2.1 and 10.2.3) so I'm attributing the 
> problem to QuickTime 6.1, which I have and she doesn't have.
>
> ~ Kiran <entropy at io.com>
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