On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Matthew Wicks wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:29:42 +0400 > From: Matthew Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cannot cut and paste from dia to openoffice > > I want to change from Visio to Dia, however I cannot cut-and-paste from > Dia to OpenOffice. > Somehow when I copy in Dia (on Linux) the clipboard doesnt get the > content. I can paste within Dia, but when I go to OpenOffice and paste > the content isnt there. Does anyone know how to fix this? I am using > Dia on Mandrake 10 CE
As far as I remember this is not yet possible. I'm not sure Dia can cut and paste to other applications at all, I think it might only be able to paste between Dia documents. If you are a programmer then we would very much appreciate your help to improve the clipboard support in Dia, and even if you are not a programmer we appreciate any help you can give with translations, documentation, adding new shapes or anything else you can think of. As a workaround you could try Exporting to PNG and inserting that into your OpenOffice.org Documents (it is not great but it is a start). There may be other formats that OpenOffice.org understands such as EPS (i hope, but I haven't checked) but PNG is the most straighforward. Dia can export to SVG but OpenOffice cannot import SVG yet but there is some very promising work underway at the moment. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2497 DXF (AutoCAD Drawing Exchange format) might be worth trying too (unlike PNG it is at least a vector format so it is likely that more information will be preserved) although there are some unresolved issues with Dia OpenOffice and DXF [1]. I have looked through bugzilla (the bug tracking system we share) but I do not see any bug reports relating specifically to cut and paste from Dia to OpenOffice. It might be a good idea to file a bug report to remind us to try and improve cut and paste support. Thanks for using Dia. Sincerely Alan Horkan Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145576 _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
