I basically think Xara is picking up the 24bit bitmap from the Snipping Tool and for some reason it converting it to jpeg for some reason; of course alpha-transparent snips (which would be 32bit on the clipboard) will be detected as a different clipboard data type (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/win...pboard-formats) and therefore remains uncompressed/converted to PNG. Seems a weird assumption to think that any 24bit bitmap pastes into Xara should ever be converted to jpeg, but it's likely just to be silly bug; I'm guessing the import from file and import from clipboard go through a unified function and someone's just overlooked the latter workflow.