Windows clipboard data transfer from Paint results in a wrapped image

Posted by Kent W Randall on
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I am seeing a Microsoft Paint tiff image that is wrapped around the center when viewed with the applet.  Here are the steps to reproduce:
(1)  View the attached tiff file in Microsoft Paint.  Observe that there is a continuous jagged white line from the upper left to the lower right-hand corner.
(2)  Copy the image into the Windows clipboard (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C)
(3)  Launch the applet viewer (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/applets.html) and open the issue_image.tif file.  Observe that the image is OK.  I am using the Sun 1.4.2_11 JVM on WinXP Pro.
(4)  Press File | New System Clipboard to copy the image from the Windows clipboard
(5)  Observe that the image is wrapped in the center

I have only found this distortion with Paint.  Other graphics viewers that I have tried do not exhibit this behavior.  Does anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks,
Kent Randall
Rockwell Automation, Inc.
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