Designer Pro X pastes images as jpeg?

[Acorn]

when you paste from snip [ at least when I do in ver 15.1] it shows as 'bitmap' in the design gallery and on the status bar - this may have changed to jepg in ver 16, I don't know - if I save it from the gallery xara chooses jepg as default format so it may always have been a jepg bitmap in the first place from snip ? ...

Apologies to Soeno!

I have just done the same with v11 and the import is a PNG with transparency.
The Snipping tool export as PNG does not include transparency though.

Could a kind Mod move this Thread to Dear Xara forum as it is another unresolved bug?
It fails in v16.
It fails in v15.
It fails in v12.
It works in v11.
No wonder I keep all the version available to get through this morass.

Acorn

[handrawn]

right I can cross check that in ver 11 - sure you will be right though

PS the windows snip is due to be repaced by 'snip and sketch' currently that new feature/app does not have free-form [mode] snip afaik

[gwpriester]

Thread moved to Dear Xara and flagged as a bug.

[handrawn]

thanks gary

acorn - confirmed, alpha in ver 11 but not in ver 15.1

[Acorn]

Thread moved to Dear Xara and flagged as a bug.

Thank you Gary.

Acorn

[bb2]

Hi Soeno

I believe this was an intended change made in version 12 and can be controlled by the following registry key

key name: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xara\XtremePro x64\16\Options\Filters ( alter the version number to match your version)
Value name: OptimiseJpegFromPng

With the program closes, right click on the value name and select modify. Change the value data from 1 to 0 and click on OK.

[Acorn]

Hi Soeno

I believe this was an intended change made in version 12 and can be controlled by the following registry key

key name: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xara\XtremePro x64\16\Options\Filters ( alter the version number to match your version)
Value name: OptimiseJpegFromPng

With the program closes, right click on the value name and select modify. Change the value data from 1 to 0 and click on OK.

Bhavesh, just tried the Registry change - no difference to v16 action, still a rectangular blob with no transparency.

Why ever "optimise" a PNG that may have transparency into a JPEG with none?

Acorn

[handrawn]

that rings a bell -I am sure the key is actually Clipboard/PasteAlpha

in ver 11 if set to 1 it pastes with alpha, if set to 0 it pastes without

but in ver 15.1 it makes no difference both settings paste without alpha

and interestingly if you save as PNG from the snip tool it has no alpha [even though it pastes with alpha into xara ver 11] it does not paste into affinity photo or photoshop with alpha ....