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Help with drag and drop for the mac
Hi everyone
I have been using PCs for ages, but I just got a new macbook.
On the PC i can drag a JPEG from the desktop into illustrator or photoshop, and the program will immediately recognise it and place it on the artboard.However, the Mac wont do this. Nothing happens. Additionally, if I copy from outside the program and paste into Illustrator, I get a message "Quick time and a decompressor are needed to see this picture."
This is a real pain, specially with a small screen and a trackpad.Is this normal? Or am I missing a crucial piece of software? Macs always used to be the leaders in this type of thing, I am convinced that when I used to use macs a decade ago this was possible to do even then – but I might be dreaming..
Macbook pro, OSX 10.6.8, Illustrator CS Photoshop CS.
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5 Replies
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You should be able to drag the Jpg to the illustrator icon in the dock and it will open, been mac user for years and always worked for me.
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Me too, files open OK on all our macs.
If you post the file or mail it I can try on mine and see if it’s the file that’s the problem.
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Thanks but I think you misunderstand. Illy on the mac has no problem opening jpegs as new files, I can even drag them over the ai icon in the dock and they will open. but when I want to drag a jpeg onto the artboard of an existing file I am working on, then nothing.
I must open the file in illustrator, copy, switch windows to the file I want to place the file into, and paste – or I use the place function.
On the pc (xp) I can drag files right off the desktop, photoshop, or even off a website, and drop them where I want on the artboard in illustrator. The system simply knows what I am trying to achieve and responds positively.
This occurs with all files, illustrator and photoshop, on the mac. It is not a fatal problem, but it is certainly a major drawback, and very clumsy, when I am using a 13 inch screen, and I would have thought there would be fix for it.
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Hi Simon, just tried dragging off the desk top straight onto the art board in CS4 and jpegs place fine!!
And psd files place OK. -
Quite.
So I must have something wrong with my system.
I have done google searches and come up with others having the same issue as me, but no solutions.
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