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Posted: **Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:37 pm**

I am using the CopyToClipboard function as follows:

_tcChart.Export.Image.JPEG.CopyToClipboard()

It is very useful to copy from a displayed chart and then paste into a report etc. But I've noticed that it seems to copy as a bitmap format not a jpeg and the file size after pasting from the clipboard is very large. I tried to export as a metafile but the quality of the image is too poor. Any suggestions?

Posted: **Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:37 am**

Hi jenb,

Using any of the commands below in a button click event produce very similar sized charts here. Clipboard chart is a JPEG too as JPEG encoding information is used. We found that file generated from the clipboard image varies slightly depending on the software used for saving it.

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			tChart1.Export.Image.JPEG.CopyToClipboard();
			tChart1.Export.Image.JPEG.Save(fileName);

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Copy to Clipboard as JPEG

Copy to Clipboard as JPEG