Out of the blue last night any image I copied and tried to paste into Illustrator (I use CS3) shows the code or web address of the copied image instead of the image itself, when pasted and I can't figure out why it started doing this or how I fix it. Did I accidentally use a keyboard shortcut to start doing this? How do I return it to the point where I can see the image I copied instead of words and symbols? I need to paste in some reference shots for a template I am working on. Any help is appreciated.
UniJ
Try dragging the image from your web browser into Illustrator or saving it to your local drive. That happens to me on rare occasions.
Just for reference, I tried to copy this image into my artwork and this is how it came up, words no picture. I did try to drag it as you suggested, but it didn't work and I really dont want to save every single item I want to use as a reference picture or whatever, down the road, I want to fix whatever I did. I HAD to have accidentally hit some sort of wrong combo on my keyboard thinking I was doing another function with the shortcuts and triggered this to happen, but I went through every pull down menu and can't see anything that would strike me as "oh yeah, thats probably it". Thanks anyway.
UniJ
Problem fixed. It is a bug in Firefox 12. Supposed to be corrected when Firefox 13 comes out in June.
There is also File>Place. You can place most any file from jpegs to pdfs and it can retain editable qualities if it has them.
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There is also File>Place. You can place most any file from jpegs to pdfs and it can retain editable qualities if it has them.