Lyx and pasting figures from clipboard

For those who (like me) swear by Lyx and its wonders, glad tidings are here (rather, they were already here, but I only noticed these tidings now!). It is possible to copy a figure (say, from a pdf document) and paste it directly into lyx as a figure! The process is as simple as "Paste Special-->png", but one is  restricted to png and epg formats for the pasted objects (which most users ought to find adequate).