TIFF is what os-x gives in lots of cases. 
For Sophie we just then ran the Sophie image read/write logic and converted the TIFF into something usable. 

On 2011-01-17, at 12:23 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:

> 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:
> 
>> 
>> On 17.01.2011, at 20:18, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>> 
>>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>> 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 ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Bert       
>>>>> Everything makes sense now. Thank you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Great! However, Safari works fine for me. E.g. I go to
>>>> 
>>>>   http://squeakland.org/showcase/
>>>> 
>>>> then right-click on the girl holding the star, choose "Copy Image", switch to Etoys, Cmd-V, and get the image pasted fine ...
>>>> 
>>>> 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 ...
>>>> 
>>>> - Bert -
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I'm on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.6) and there the format is PNG.
>> 
>>> Anyway, the TIFF reader is working here and solves the issue for good. Now I just need to get permission to publish it.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Juan Vuletich
>> 
>> Great! :)
>> 
>> - Bert -
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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