Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 181422
snapshot tool cannot paste into other applications (Star Office 8, GIMP)
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:06 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Using the snapshot tool inside of acroread will copy the image to the clipboard, this image is then not able to be pasted into StarOffice 7 or 8, or The GIMP. This occured when we moved to RHEL 3 Update 6. Before upgrading to Update 6, we had acroread 5, and this problem was not seen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): acroread-7.0.1-1.0.EL3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a PDF in acroread 7.0.1 2. Use the snapshot tool to select an area of the PDF 3. Paste into Star Office document Actual Results: Error box stating the clipboard format isn't available Expected Results: A picture should have been pasted. Additional info:
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