Layout editor : Paste

Layout editor	Edit menu
Paste

Paste the contents of the clipboard into the current layout.

You can paste:

anything that has been copied into the clipboard as text, a picture or a bitmap; the copying may have been done in ILWIS or in any other Windows application;
this includes for instance: logos, graphs, multiple lines or multiple paragraphs of text, etc.

To paste:

select Paste from the Edit menu, or
click the Paste button in the standard toolbar of the layout editor,
press the Ctrl+V keys on the keyboard.

Pasted objects will always appear as a new text, picture or bitmap at the top left corner in your layout.

Tip:

You can use Windows' Clipboard Viewer to inspect the current contents of the clipboard.
Afer pasting, you may need to resize the pasted pictures, bitmaps or text. To resize an object, you can select an object and drag its size handles; you can also adapt the width and height values in the Layout Management pane.
It is not a very good idea to copy and paste annotation elements from one layout into another layout: as most objects are copied as pictures, the meaning of coordinates, sizes of a scale bar, etc. will get lost.

When you wish to create a layout which should look almost exactly as another layout, it is therefore advised to save the current layout with another name and replace the map view(s) and/or edit the annotation. For more information, refer to the tips in the Copy topic.