Xtreme on a Mac

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I run it on VMWare ... and there are issues with clipboard interoperability.

Ah; that's potentially troubling. Thanks for the info!

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Ah; that's potentially troubling. Thanks for the info!

To be clear, the clipboard works fine between Xtreme and other apps running under VMWare. It does not appear to work reliably between Xtreme and native Mac apps. For instance, copying a bitmap from a web browser running as a native Mac app, then pasting into Xtreme does not appear to work reliably.

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To focus on that one example: how is copying it to the desktop first, then dragging the resulting file into Xtreme?

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To focus on that one example: how is copying it to the desktop first, then dragging the resulting file into Xtreme?

For bitmaps, it works fine so long as the bitmap is saved to the disk and imported. If VMWare shares a desktop between Mac and Windows (it may well do but I don't have mine configured that way), that would work too. As would saving it to the Mac desktop, then either using import (and finding it on the 'shared' drive which is your exported OS-X home) or finding the file in Windows Explorer in that share and dragging it.

For vectors, this depends on having a compatible vector format. I've had reasonable success importing OS-X generated PDFs.

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Thanks. This issue is of more than just academic interest to me, if I make the switch, as I'd be needing to transfer vector paths (in .eps or .ai format) from Xtreme to native Mac modeling apps.

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Xtreme's ability to import/export .eps or .ai should not be affected by whether it's running under VMWare or natively. When I said I'd had success with PDF, that didn't mean I'd tried and failed with .eps / .ai

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Cool. Many thanks for all the insight!