On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Chris Idou wrote:

> But I'm still confused about one thing: If copying from Finder actually 
> copies the file icon, and not the actual tiff, how come it pastes ok into 
> TextEdit?

The Finder also puts the location of the file on the pasteboard, and I believe 
TextEdit sees that, recognizes that it's an image file, and reads the file into 
an image. You can do the same fairly easily.

—Jens_______________________________________________

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