Exporting Images and Clipping Paths

I ran into a problem exporting images the was previously reported by Ruvan Fernando on Jan 25, 2006, but nobody had responded, so I'm trying again...
I'm using the SDK to open images and then save them back out with different colorspaces, resolution, etc. When I have an image that has a clipping path in it, when it's saved, the clipping path is missing.
I am copying all the source image attributes to the destination image attributes.
Any help would be appreciated.

I tried dragging it, and it gave the original version.
At Share there are; Print, Email, Desktop, HomePage, .Mac Slides, Order prints, Send to iDVD, Burn Disk, Export
I tried Desktop and it put the current image do my wallpaper.

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Unfortunatelly, LR doesn't work with layers or sellections done in PS. <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. > Hello, > > I've imported some tiff with embedded clipping paths from photoshop to > lightroom. After an export these paths are missing in the tiffs. Is there > a possibility to retain the paths in the tiffs? > > regards, frank > > using lightroom-1.4.1/macos

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