Copy/paste disabled.

[Peter Jason]

When downloading images I try to copy the
annotation too. This works 99% of the time, but
occasionally this seems disabled. Is there some
way around this?
Peter

 

[Andy Burns]

When downloading images I try to copy the annotation too.

Copying from where? Mixed text+image content from within a web page
perhaps ...

This works 99% of the time, but occasionally this seems disabled.
Is there some way around this?

Where are you pasting it to? Mixed content is likely to paste ok to a
"wordprocessing" type application, other apps will only take bitmap or
text from the clipboard ...

 

[Nil]

When downloading images I try to copy the
annotation too. This works 99% of the time, but
occasionally this seems disabled. Is there some
way around this?

Your question is unnecessarily vague.

- How, exactly, are you "downloading" the image?

- What do you mean by "annotation"? Images are images. Annotation is
text on a web page. They are not linked to each other.

- What makes you think it's "disabled"? Do you see some error message?

Please be precise, complete, and detailed.

 

[charlie]

Your question is unnecessarily vague.

- How, exactly, are you "downloading" the image?

- What do you mean by "annotation"? Images are images. Annotation is
text on a web page. They are not linked to each other.

- What makes you think it's "disabled"? Do you see some error message?

Please be precise, complete, and detailed.

Some web content can be "flagged" such that a normal copy paste will not
work. (But the print screen function, and a paste into a graphics
program can be a way out.)

 

[Peter Jason]

Some web content can be "flagged" such that a normal copy paste will not
work. (But the print screen function, and a paste into a graphics
program can be a way out.)

This would appear to be the case, and I can also
get around it by the "save page" and then finding
the details there. But it's tedious for many
images. Where is the disabling code, and can
this be altered from the HTML view?

 

[123Jim]

This would appear to be the case, and I can also
get around it by the "save page" and then finding
the details there. But it's tedious for many
images. Where is the disabling code, and can
this be altered from the HTML view?

You don't use the snipping tool included in Windows 7?

 

[Nil]

This would appear to be the case, and I can also
get around it by the "save page" and then finding
the details there. But it's tedious for many
images. Where is the disabling code, and can
this be altered from the HTML view?

What's all this about "annotations"?

 

[Nil]

Some web content can be "flagged" such that a normal copy paste
will not work. (But the print screen function, and a paste into a
graphics program can be a way out.)

Yes. The Print Screen trick isn't ideal, though. The image could be
resized, or partly off-screen. I find that most "protected" images can
still be gotten by right-clicking on the background near the image and
choosing View Page Info | Media, where you can retrieve the image from
Firefox's cache.

Thanks for making a good stab at guessing what the OP was talking
about. It's not likely he'll tell us for sure.

 

[Andy Burns]

Some web content can be "flagged" such that a normal copy paste will not
work.

It's not "flagged". There might be a javascript intercepting your
key/mouse actions, but javascript can be disabled.

 

[Peter Jason]

Yes. The Print Screen trick isn't ideal, though. The image could be
resized, or partly off-screen. I find that most "protected" images can
still be gotten by right-clicking on the background near the image and
choosing View Page Info | Media, where you can retrieve the image from
Firefox's cache.

Thanks for making a good stab at guessing what the OP was talking
about. It's not likely he'll tell us for sure.

I'm looking for a good example to post.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

(Though not what is being discussed here [since PJ has confirmed that it
_is_ web pages he means], that's not _entirely_ true: the JPEG file
format [and possibly others] does have provision for embedded text in at
least two places in the file. In Irfanview, view a JPEG and type I then
C to view/edit one of them; other image manipulation tools are
available.)

This would appear to be the case, and I can also
get around it by the "save page" and then finding

You don't have to save it - you can just view the source. (In many
browsers, anyway - certainly including Firefox.)

the details there. But it's tedious for many
images. Where is the disabling code, and can
this be altered from the HTML view?

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[Nil]

(Though not what is being discussed here [since PJ has confirmed
that it _is_ web pages he means], that's not _entirely_ true: the
JPEG file format [and possibly others] does have provision for
embedded text in at least two places in the file. In Irfanview,
view a JPEG and type I then C to view/edit one of them; other
image manipulation tools are available.)

Right, you're referring to embedded EXIF and IPTC tags, but I don't
think that's what he meant, since I don't think there's any way to
disable those tags independently of the images themselves. If you can
get the picture, and if it has the tags, you'll get the tags.

You don't have to save it - you can just view the source. (In many
browsers, anyway - certainly including Firefox.)

I find that whatever the scripting that tries to prevent you from
saving the picture directly usually obscures the picture's URL, too, so
just viewing the raw source won't usually tell you what you want to
know. But Firefox's View Page Info will almost always find the copy
that's hidden in the browser cache.