Copy Finder File to Clipboard

[JMichaelTX]

@leochenfc

I used Read a File to read a image file to clipboard, but the 200KB image file (size on disk) became 2.2MB image on clipboard which made my email extremely large so that I couldn't send it out. Is it a bug?

This is a known issue. The KM Read File action converts all image files to tiff format on the clipboard. For a workaround, see:

Open File Within an Email or Application

Hey Folks, Keyboard Maestro's Read a File action places the contents of the given file on the Clipboard. In the case of images, it converts all image types (png, jpg, etc) to tiff, which is always much larger than the compressed types. For example, a jpg file of 46.3KB may produce a tiff file of 214KB (a factor of 4.6X). The AppleScript below will place one or more file references on the Clipboard as pasteable objects that when pasted into Apple Mail will be the same file type as the source…

@peternlewis

Keyboard Maestro generally deals with images as tiff’s, which being lossless will generally be much larger than jpegs.

Feature Request

@peternlewis, could you please change the Read File action to use the same image format as the source file? So if the image file is a "png", that is the format that will be placed in the variable or on the clipboard.

Almost no one uses the tiff format these days.

Thanks.