Hi!
How can I copy an object from one drawing file to the another one?
For example:
- I make draw1.svg, where one of the objects is a composite between a curve and a triangle, each with it own customization. - I start other project, draw2.svg, and I note that I need exactly the same curve and triangle. - I don't want to redraw them, I just want to copy from one to the another.
Right now, if I put "copy" in one document, and then "paste" in other, I get a "Nothing in the clipboard".
Thank you!
Facundo Batista Desarrollo de Red fbatista@...321... (54 11) 5130-4643 Cel: 15 5097 5024
First off, what version are you using and what platform is it on? In my build from this morning's CVS on Windows, it works as you'd expect. I can copy from one doc and paste into another. If you are not using a current version, that may have something to do with it. If you are, more information will be needed to try and figure out where the problem lies.
In the meantime, this is not the recommended method, but if you are having that much difficulty you can just "import" draw1.svg into draw2.svg. If there are many other objects in draw1 that you don't want imported, you may want to save another copy of it which only has the objects that draw2 will need (to avoid having to weed them out after the fact). It's probably not the optimal alternative method to copy and paste, but it still accomplishes what you are looking for.
-Josh
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Batista, Facundo Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 1:06 PM To: List-Inkscape (E-mail) Subject: [Inkscape-user] Copying objects
Hi!
How can I copy an object from one drawing file to the another one?
For example:
- I make draw1.svg, where one of the objects is a composite between a curve and a triangle, each with it own customization.
- I start other project, draw2.svg, and I note that I need exactly the same curve and triangle. - I don't want to redraw them, I just want to copy from one to the another.
Right now, if I put "copy" in one document, and then "paste" in other, I get a "Nothing in the clipboard".
Thank you!
Facundo Batista Desarrollo de Red fbatista@...321... (54 11) 5130-4643 Cel: 15 5097 5024
Quoth Batista, Facundo on or about 2004-11-11:
Hi!
How can I copy an object from one drawing file to the another one?
For example:
- I make draw1.svg, where one of the objects is a composite between a curve
and a triangle, each with it own customization.
- I start other project, draw2.svg, and I note that I need exactly the same
curve and triangle.
- I don't want to redraw them, I just want to copy from one to the another.
Right now, if I put "copy" in one document, and then "paste" in other, I get a "Nothing in the clipboard".
Cut-and-pasting works fine on my Inkscape 0.40pre2 under Debian GNU/Linux. It has done every since Sodipodi, IIRC.
I can't tell from your mailer whether you're using Windows or UN*X. Please clarify. Also try the following:
* Cut-and-paste from Inkscape to other applications. * Cut-and-paste from other applcations to Inkscape. * Cut-and-paste other types of object (e.g. text, raster images).
There may be a clipboard icon in your system tray. That may link to diagnostic information.
Caveat: Should be two windows of the same instance of inkscape; it may not work between instances. Open both files from within inkscape (i.e File>Open) will ensure both windows are from the same instance.
-trent PS: Ugh. Must sleep today.
Caveat: Should be two windows of the same instance of inkscape; it may not work between instances. Open both files from within inkscape (i.e File>Open) will ensure both windows are from the same instance.
Exactly. It does not work between instances yet. Only text can be copied/pasted between instances or from Inkscape to/from other apps, but all other objects cannot. Within one instance, everything works.
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