Public bug reported: There is a bug that stops me from pasting any text that was copied from an SVG document into LibreOffice Writer. For some reason, it does not effect Impress/Calc. Also, it only happens in non-windows versions of LibreOffice.
Steps to reproduce: 1) Copy some text from an SVG document (Like the CCNA Explorer Curriculum) 2) Try to paste it into LibreOffice Writer 3) You get an error message that says: "Requested clipboard format is not available" If I do a "Paste Special" from the menu bar and choose "Unformatted text", it works fine. Also, I can paste the text into gedit/leafpad and re-copy/re-paste it from gedit/leafpad into LibreOffice Writer. However, using menus/dialog/leafpad every time I need to paste something is very annoying and inefficient. I think that it happens because LibreOffice cannot recognize/transfer the type of formatting used in SVG documents due to incompatibilities with the file type. This could probably be fixed by setting the paste function to automatically use Special Paste if the font/formatting cannot transfer. This would be a much better way to handle unknown formats than the current method of showing an error and not pasting it at all. It would also be much easier to implement than full support for SVG. ** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/979945 Title: Error when copy/pasting text from SVG To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/979945/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs