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Copy/paste size from Illustrator to GIMP

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Copy/paste size from Illustrator to GIMP Chris Mohler 03 Jul 23:26
  Copy/paste size from Illustrator to GIMP Sven Neumann 04 Jul 09:02
Chris Mohler
2008-07-03 23:26:47 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Copy/paste size from Illustrator to GIMP

Hi list,

If I copy an embedded image to the clipboard in AI CS3, and then do File->Acq->From Clipboard, the resulting image is enlarged somewhat. If I copy the image and then paste into a new AI doc, then save it as PNG and open in GIMP, the size/DPI is correct. Pasting from GIMP into Illustrator works as expected - no size/DPI change.

Anyone have ideas on how to diagnose this? It's not a huge problem, but it's irking me because I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm running XP in a VM (vmware under Ubuntu 8.04), GIMP 2.4.5 (downloading 2.4.6 right now).

Thanks!
Chris

Sven Neumann
2008-07-04 09:02:13 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Copy/paste size from Illustrator to GIMP

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 16:26 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:

If I copy an embedded image to the clipboard in AI CS3, and then do File->Acq->From Clipboard, the resulting image is enlarged somewhat. If I copy the image and then paste into a new AI doc, then save it as PNG and open in GIMP, the size/DPI is correct. Pasting from GIMP into Illustrator works as expected - no size/DPI change.

AI most probably assumes some DPI settings for the clipboard. Note that it hands a bitmap to GIMP and there's no way that AI and GIMP can communicate the DPI settings when the image is passed over the clipboard. So it needs to make some assumptions.

Sven