About pasting images

Overview

Important: This feature is only available if Blueprint is configured to run with elevated in-trust browser.

With Blueprint, you can copy and paste images or screen captures from other applications into any Blueprint artifact that supports images, including:

Maximum image size

You can paste images into Blueprint if the image size on the clipboard is 1900KB or less.

Note: When you copy an image to the clipboard, the image is copied to the clipboard in Bitmap format, which is much larger than a JPG for instance. If the image is too large, you may want to consider using the Image shape from the palette to add your shape to the diagram.

Tasks

Pasting an image into Blueprint

To paste an image into Blueprint:

Note: You can copy and paste images that are up to 1900KB in size.

  1. Copy the image onto your Clipboard.

  2. Open the artifact in Blueprint where you want to paste the image. Click the canvas to place focus on the canvas.

  3. Click the canvas to place focus on it.

  4. Click the Paste button on the ribbon (Home tab, Clipboard group) or use the Ctrl-V keyboard shortcut.

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