SnipSVG works well with Outlook and PowerPoint 365

[Simon_Dismore]

The need for documentation is often triggered by an emailed support question and reply.

Outlook 365 seems to have no problem rendering pasted or inserted SnipSVG annotated screenshots like this one from an SAP system:

Process Control.png

In my tests this works in Outlook 365 web viewer and the desktop and Android clients. It looks like Outlook silently converts the SVG to PNG, so the end user doesn't receive a vector image that they can download. In PowerPoint the pasted image remains an SVG that can be scaled and downloaded. Either way the author still has the SnipSVG file so the explanation from their email is suitable for adding to a web help system like H+M, and can be further edited to add process steps etc.

This is an excellent first release, congratulations to the team.

Simon

[Tim Frost]

Thanks for posting that info. I find that Thunderbird does the same when using 'attach from clipboard' in a message, and the attachment appears as a PNG. It is not clear to me whether the conversion is done by the sender or recipient, but so long as it works, I do not mind.

[Alexander Halser]

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Thunderbird does the same when using 'attach from clipboard'

Thunderbird can embed SVGs but does not recognize the SVG clipboard format (MS Office does).

When you use the Share function in SnipSVG and export it as SVG file (export as file or temp file), then SnipSVG not only creates the SVG file in the output folder, it also places a link to that file on the clipboard. That's very handy because you can open any instance of Windows Explorer and copy that (temporary) file to the folder.

Many other programs check the clipboard for file links as well. SnipSVG does, Thunderbird does, too. So when you export a temp file in SnipSVG, you can paste it into the editor of Thunderbird. It gets the link to the temporary SVG file and embeds this SVG. Or PNG. Or whatever other format you have exported before, that is recognized by this application.

• Share as SVG file and paste in Thunderbird works.
• Share as SVG to clipboard and paste in Thunderbird does not work.
• Share as PNG to clipboard and paste in Thunderbird does work, but gets you an embedded PNG, of course.