Ah, yeah that probably explains it. Apple moved to PNG for a number of things in 10.6. 

On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

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> On 17.01.2011, at 20:18, Juan Vuletich wrote:
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>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>>>>> Ah, I misremembered. Neither RTF nor TIFF reading is implemented. On Unix we get text/html as rich-text format, and that works. Now I remember something about a RichText Squeak reader somewhere, but can't place it ...
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>>>>> Bitmap pasting works only if the format is PNG or JPG, which a lot of apps produce, but not all, apparently. For screenshots I use shift-control-command-4 which puts a PNG into the clipboard and that can be pasted fine.
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>>>>> HTH,
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>>>>> - Bert       
>>>> Everything makes sense now. Thank you.
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>>>> It seems that Grab, Preview, Safari, Firefox and Chrome export only TIFF to clipboard. I'm working on that. I hope to have news soon.
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Juan Vuletich
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>>> Great! However, Safari works fine for me. E.g. I go to
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>>>    http://squeakland.org/showcase/
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>>> then right-click on the girl holding the star, choose "Copy Image", switch to Etoys, Cmd-V, and get the image pasted fine ...
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>>> Possibly I changed the default format on my Mac at some point in the distant past? Hmm. But others are reporting it works for them ...
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>>> - Bert -
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>> Not here. I get TIFF. Googled a bit, searched into preferences, could not find a way to modify that. It could be a Safari issue, or most likely an OS X issue, as the same happens to me in Firefox and Chrome. FWIW, I'm using Safari 5.0.3 (5533.19.4) on OS X 10.5.8.
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> I'm on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.6) and there the format is PNG.
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>> Anyway, the TIFF reader is working here and solves the issue for good. Now I just need to get permission to publish it.
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>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
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> Great! :)
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> - Bert -
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