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Re: AppleScript to automatically paste clipboard image to a file.
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Re: AppleScript to automatically paste clipboard image to a file.


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript to automatically paste clipboard image to a file.
  • From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:51:08 -0800

On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Gold wrote:

> Thanks for the helpful tips so far.  I'll explain a little more clearly what I am trying to do.
>
> First, it does not have to do with screen shots.
>
> It has to do with taking any image already within the clipboard and automatically and easily saving it to a standard location.
>
> For example...
>
> I receive an email in Apple Mail with a photo attachment.
>
> I hold down CONTROL and click on the image to select COPY IMAGE from the menu which comes up.  (The image is now in the Clipboard.)
>
> I would like a script to recognize that there is now a new image in the clipboard, and then automatically save the image as a JPEG to a file called Clipboard.jpg in some standard location.

So you're going to manually copy the image to the clipboard, and then resave it as a JPEG, creating additional compression artifacts (lowering the quality of the image)?

Why not just have a script to save attachments to the folder directly - why use the clipboard at all? Doesn't made sense to me.

> Alternatively, I might have copied the image into the Clipboard from a web page.

Same question - why copy it at all? Why not just save it directly? Same number of steps, but without mucking up your clipboard, and without lowering the image quality. _______________________________________________
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