I’ve installed Sketchup and Layout 2027. I have a problem copy and pasting an image from the internet into a layout page. I do a first one fine, but if I copy and paste a different image it just pastes the first one I did. Any ideas?
Perhaps this is a Mac thing?I just tested with LO 2027 on Windows and it worked fine. Maybe another Mac user can confirm. What Mac OS version are you using?
My recommendation would be to save images to a folder on your computer and then insert them into LayOut. Copying from the web and pasting into LO can be risky. If something happens to your LO file and references are lost (which has happened to some users), you’d have to go back to the web and hunt up the images, copy them again, paste them, and likely resize them to fit. If you insert them and something happens you can go into the References list and relink the images.You won’t have to hunt for them and you won’t have to resize them.
if the images have the same name, then yeah.
you can do it on your computer too. import an image, go edit the original (under the same name) then re-import it.
because they have the same location and the same name, the first one is duplicated, the second one is not re-imported (layout assumes there is nothing to re-import and can’t have 2 different things with the same name and location)
when on a mac you copy an image, say, Dave’s avatar, and paste it in layout, it downloads the image and places it inside the layout file under the name “Clipboard Image 0”
apparently, if now you copy another image (Jo’s avatar) and paste it, it gets re-downloaded under the same name. But because the image technically already exists in the document, you get a copy of Dave’s avatar.
after a purge, I just do a cmd+v and now I get Jo’s avatar.
idk how much of it is caused by layout and how much my mac os. ideally, every copy should get a new incremental name.
edit : @adam ? bug or feature from mac os ? 