copy png image to clipboard in windows from commandline preserving transparency

Question

I have tried nircmd.exe for this, it turns transparency to black. I have also tired XnView, which turns transparency to white.

Don't know how to do this with ImageMagick either, I thought that convert file.png png:- | clip would work, but it looks like it gives me text on my clip like ëPNG...

Answer 1

I assume you need "paste" image to program.

You can simulate Windows Explorer copy command with CopyQ. After download and run CopyQ, type this command:

copyq.exe copy text/uri-list file:///C:/testdir/file.png

C:/testdir/file.png - path to image. Should be used forward slash /

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Also you can give directly full path file.png to program.

"C:\Program Files\paint.net\PaintDotNet.exe" "C:\testdir\file.png"