On 24/2/10 17:51, Jon Cruz wrote:
On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:59 AM, ~suv wrote:
This is an issue with the pasteboard syncing feature between X11 and OS X - please read the FAQ for a workaround: "Copying and pasting in Inkscape creates pixellated images instead of copying the vector objects " http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Copying_and_pasting_in_Inkscape_creates_pixellated_images_instead_of_copying_the_vector_objects
There might be some complication due to a bit of random order being employed to choose which data flavors to offer and accept at which times. If you don have this continue, we could benefit from a quick check to see what types are being offered and passed through.
It always happens on Leopard (and Snow Leopard) - i.e. reproducible if the X11 preferences are not changed. Bug #307005 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/307005 “[OS X] copy & paste inserts a bitmap copy instead of the vector object”
On Snow Leopard, sometimes copy&paste completely fails, but the same changes in the X11 preferences have been reported to bring back copy&paste functionality within Inkscape: Bug #460197 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/460197 “Can't copy objects in pre4, Snow Leopard”
Since the release of OS X 10.6 I have read several reports of 'GIMP on OS X' users (osx port of GIMP [1]) that see the same clipboard failure on Snow Leopard when copying&pasting within one instance of GIMP. They tell that disabling that special X11 feature ("Update Pasteboard when CLIPBOARD changes") helps to restore copy&paste within GIMP as well.
While it was never reported for Inkscape 0.46, this issue first was noticed with Inkscape 0.46+devel *after* Apple updated its X11 to version 2.1.6 (which is based on Xquartz 2.3.2 [2]) and confirmed by the developer of Xquartz ("It is a known problem").
Could you explain with more details how to best monitor the data types 'offered and passed through' the clipboard of X11? I did once install your clipboard utility 'dragndrop' [4], but was not succeeding at the time to interpret any of the information it gave me on the content of the clipboard [5].
~suv
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/ [2] http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.3.2 [3] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.user/12363/focus=12365 [4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dragndrop/ [5] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.user/12638