I have this oddball behavior going on with copy/paste. I am running 0.47 on a mac with OS X Leopard.
I have a path that I am trying to copy and do "paste in place". However, when I paste the path, what I am getting is an IMAGE, not a path, I can't edit it. It has a white background, which shouldn't be there, and it doesn't paste in place. It pastes off to the left of where it should be. I am wanting to paste it in place on a different layer, but even pasting it on the same layer creates an image, instead of a copy of the original path.
How I determined that it was an image was to go into the XML editor and watched what happened when I did the paste. Sure enough, the XML editor states that the copy is an image, not a path.
What is going on? Have I changed a setting somewhere by accident? Or is this a bug?
Well...it's fixed, but I have no idea what was going on. I trashed my install, and downloaded the .dmg from inkscape.org. Ran it and did copy paste. Still had the same issue. Paste was an image, and I got a duplicate on my desktop.
So did a reboot. Now everything seems to be working. Very weird.
--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> wrote:
From: Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn@...12...> Subject: [Inkscape-user] bug? To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9:38 AM
I have this oddball behavior going on with copy/paste. I am running 0.47 on a mac with OS X Leopard.
I have a path that I am trying to copy and do "paste in place". However, when I paste the path, what I am getting is an IMAGE, not a path, I can't edit it. It has a white background, which shouldn't be there, and it doesn't paste in place. It pastes off to the left of where it should be. I am wanting to paste it in place on a different layer, but even pasting it on the same layer creates an image, instead of a copy of the original path.
How I determined that it was an image was to go into the XML editor and watched what happened when I did the paste. Sure enough, the XML editor states that the copy is an image, not a path.
What is going on? Have I changed a setting somewhere by accident? Or is this a bug?
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On 24/2/10 15:38, Elwin Estle wrote:
I have this oddball behavior going on with copy/paste. I am running 0.47 on a mac with OS X Leopard.
I have a path that I am trying to copy and do "paste in place". However, when I paste the path, what I am getting is an IMAGE, not a path, I can't edit it. It has a white background, which shouldn't be there, and it doesn't paste in place. It pastes off to the left of where it should be. I am wanting to paste it in place on a different layer, but even pasting it on the same layer creates an image, instead of a copy of the original path.
How I determined that it was an image was to go into the XML editor and watched what happened when I did the paste. Sure enough, the XML editor states that the copy is an image, not a path.
What is going on? Have I changed a setting somewhere by accident? Or is this a bug?
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
hth, ~suv
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
hth, ~suv
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.
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
On 24/2/10 15:38, Elwin Estle wrote:
... and it doesn't paste in place. It pastes off to the left of where it should be.
That's another setting to take care of with current X11 versions installed by Apple on Leopard and Snow Leopard: in order to use the 'Alt' key for keyboard shortcuts you need to change the key mapping used by X11 (else 'Alt' is ignored and you are simply pasting with 'Ctrl+V' under the cursor instead of a 'Paste in Place')
You can a) use the menu command 'Edit > Paste in Place' b) change the X11 key mapping for one of the 'Option/Alt' keys as described in the FAQ "How to make the Alt key work?" http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_to_make_the_Alt_key_work_.3F
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