Fixing Apples' Broken Clipboard, with Java

Douglas A. Lyon

doi:10.5381/jot.2008.7.3.c2

Fixing Apples' Broken Clipboard, with Java

Douglas A. Lyon

Fairfield University

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Abstract

The Mac OS X clipboard is infamous for changing the format of bit-mapped images that are pasted to it. These images are typically encoded using a QuickTime Tiff compressor that renders them unreadable on other platforms (e.g. Windows and Linux). This means that Mac users who create screen-shot based Word or PowerPoint documents are not able to view the images in those documents on non-Mac platforms.

Original language	American English
Journal	Journal of Object Technology
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5381/jot.2008.7.3.c2
State	Published - Mar 1 2008

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Computer Engineering
Engineering

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