You can simply goto “Tools > Preferences > Advanced” and Uncheck the
“Write LISP Form” check box - or - on any version just use Paste Special and
choose Paste Bitmap
I use the Windows Clipboard to
carry information between applications. The Window Clipboard is a facility
provided by MicroSoft that can store data in an
application agnostic way - that means that for example, Excel can put data on
the Clipboard (with Copy) and MSWord can read it (with Paste). The data on the
clipboard doesn’t care whether it came from Excel or Word or visa-versa. You
can imagine that the Windows clipboard is like a file. You are putting
something into a file that another application can read. But the clip board is
unlike a file because it can support multiple data types at the same time. Let
me explain: now in release 2.0 and above of the Schematic when you Copy (with
Control-C) with the schematic pane having what is called “keyboard focus” -
which generally means you last clicked in the schematic window, I put a bitmap
onto the clipboard of the current schematic like before (ie
like in Release 31.0) but I also now put text onto the clipboard than can be
read by LISP to re-create the schematic database. The clipboard is smart enough
to hold these two data types (bitmap and text) at the same time. Now, in for
example, Paint, when you Paste (with Control-V) Paint asks the clipboard for a
bitmap and it gets the picture. So paste puts the picture into Paint. All is
what you expect. When however you do Paste in Word, it asks the clipboard for
any text it has - and the clipboard sends it the LISP code! This is not what
you expect - you expected the picture. In the earlier case after the clipboard
said “there is no text” Word would have requested a picture from the clipboard
and got the bitmap and so would have pasted the picture. This is what you
expected.
Why did I add this LISP form to
the clipboard? For two reasons: because the clipboard is visible to all applications
you can have two copies of the Schematic running and you can paste a schematic
from one to the other. When does this ever happen you say? Well there is one
more powerful feature of the clipboard - it is transparent to the network - the
clipboard can be moved across the network (you don’t have to do anything) so,
when I am working at home on my home PC and have Remote Desktop open to work I
can cut and paste schematics from one machine to the other.
In version Version
4.3.93 and later you can simply turn off the LISP to Clipboard options. (”Tools
> Preferences > Advanced” and Uncheck the “Write LISP Form”)