<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px">I just save the project as image, then add the image to a document. While perhaps a few more clicks than using the clipboard, it works fine.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482281212095_67811"><span><br></span></div><div><span>Cheers,</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Brent</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:45 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings@duif.net> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 12/20/2016 09:43 PM, Larry Shaffer wrote:<br clear="none">> 2016-12-20 18:23 GMT+01:00 Bo Victor Thomsen<br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bo.victor.thomsen@gmail.com" href="mailto:bo.victor.thomsen@gmail.com">bo.victor.thomsen@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:bo.victor.thomsen@gmail.com" href="mailto:bo.victor.thomsen@gmail.com">bo.victor.thomsen@gmail.com</a>>>:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Hi List-members -<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Is there in Qgis a function / button / menu-item / short-cut /<br clear="none">> plugin to make a simple bitmap copy of the current content of<br clear="none">> the map-canvas and save it to the clipboard ? My users need this<br clear="none">> to make a copy of the map and paste into MS-Word or other software.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> While not part of the QGIS app, one could use this PyQGIS snippet to do<br clear="none">> so (tested quickly on macOS 10.11.6 under QGIS 2.14) from the PyQGIS<br clear="none">> console:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> from PyQt4.QtGui import *<br clear="none">> QApplication.clipboard().setImage(QImage(QPixmap.grabWidget(iface.mapCanvas())))<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> This avoids having to re-render the QGraphicsView (QgsMapCanvas) to a<br clear="none">> paint device, like an image. Code can be wrapped in a plugin, then have<br clear="none">> some key bindings applied (would need some more PyQt).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tested here on Linux: working fine too!!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think this looks like a nice (easy?) feature request to make this core <br clear="none">functionality?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- right-click menu on mapcanvas with:<br clear="none"> - save Map to Clipboard<br clear="none"> (- set size of MapCanvas to...) I know this is also often needed...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- one or two buttons to do this?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">While a plugin works for older versions, I think it should not be needed <br clear="none">for a teacher/user to hear: install QGIS and add the following <br clear="none">plugins.... (while that is actually what I often have to say....)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I think I could even try to do this :-)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Richard Duivenvoorde<div class="yqt9715979830" id="yqtfd60025"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Qgis-user mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none">List info: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a><br clear="none">Unsubscribe: <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>