Inkscape

Cannot paste on inkscape .47 for OS X

Bug #488193 reported by mallydobb
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Bug Description

I am running Snow Leopard, 10.6.2 on a MacBook, late 2008.
I can open SVG files and copy/cut, but when I try to paste the copied selection into a new inkscape document it won't let me. is there a way to do this or is this broken? I can paste within the same document, it just doesn't seem to carry the clipboard contents to the new document/window.

Tags: clipboard osx
su_v (suv-lp)
tags: added: clipboard osx
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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Did you change the clipboard preferences of X11/Xquartz according to the FAQ?
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Copying_and_pasting_in_Inkscape_creates_pixellated_images_instead_of_copying_the_vector_objects>
Screenshot of the X11 preferences window: <http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=3627#p17000>

Could you please give feedback if this helps?

Your report is most likely a duplicate of either
Bug #307005 in Inkscape: “copy command always does bitmap copy”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/307005> which describes a general clipboard conflict with newer versions of X11/Xquartz on OS X Leopard and later, or of the recently filed
Bug #460197 in Inkscape: “Can't copy objects in pre4, Snow Leopard”:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/460197> which at the moment is still undecided if it's essentially the same issue on Snow Leopard or if there's something else that breaks the clipboard handling of Inkscape (and maybe other X11 apps) under X11 on OS X 10.6.

Changed in inkscape:
status: New → Incomplete
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mallydobb (kahlil-gmail) wrote :

Changing the clipboard preferences did help, thanks. I looked and looked but was having a hard time earlier this afternoon finding information on this.

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su_v (suv-lp) wrote :

Thank you for your feedback!

Linking this report as duplicate to bug #307005. Please feel free to add a comment and revert the duplicate status if the problem re-occurs and cannot be worked around by changing the clipboard preferences of X11/Xquartz.

su_v (suv-lp)
Changed in inkscape:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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