Re: [Zim-wiki] Pasting from PowerPoint as text?

[Jaap Karssenberg]

Hi Marco,

Sorry for the late reply. This is an issue that is bugging me as well.
Problem is that applications need to negotiate about the format to use,
looks like powerpoint prefers images over plain text. Will need some
investigation to get it to work differently.

Regards,

Jaap


On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Marco Cevoli 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when I copy and paste text from Microsoft PowerPoint into Zim Wiki,
> the text is pasted as an image. Is this the expected behaviour? Is
> there an option to always paste text as plain text? Maybe it's a PPT
> issue... I don't know...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Marco Cevoli
>
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Re: [Zim-wiki] Pasting from PowerPoint as text?

[JP Vossen]

You can usually do an intermediate step where you paste into a "dumb"
editor that does not support any kind of rich text, then copy from there
and paste into Zim.  Gedit, Notepad, and Text Editor are all good for
that.  I use that trick all the time to clear all kinds of cruft out of
stuff when I just want the plain text.  You lose all formatting, but for
me, 95% of the time that's the point anyway.

OK, I lied slightly.  I used to use the editor trick above, but now I
mostly have a command line: 'read the clipboard | do stuff | write the
clipboard' trick.  I do something like the following to do both the
above and trim leading/trailing white space.  Note this is untested
as-written because it's adapted and simplified from some crufty scripts
and aliases:

Linux:
xsel -b | perl -pe 's/^\s+//; s/\s+$/\n/;' | /xsel -bi

Mac:
pbpaste | perl -pe 's/^\s+//; s/\s+$/\n/;' | pbcopy

Windows (Requires UnxUtils and ActivePerl (or could use UnxUtils `sed`))
getclip | perl -pe "s/^\s+//; s/\s+$/\n/;" | putclip


On 01/07/2016 10:16 AM, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
> Same seems to be true for excel, which is in that case actually very
> convenient / handy:
> https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Create-a-table-using-LibreOffice%2C-OpenOffice-or-Excel
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Jaap Karssenberg
> > wrote:
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> Sorry for the late reply. This is an issue that is bugging me as
> well. Problem is that applications need to negotiate about the
> format to use, looks like powerpoint prefers images over plain
> text. Will need some investigation to get it to work differently.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Marco Cevoli
> > wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when I copy and paste text from Microsoft PowerPoint into Zim
> Wiki,
> the text is pasted as an image. Is this the expected behaviour? Is
> there an option to always paste text as plain text? Maybe it's
> a PPT
> issue... I don't know...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Marco Cevoli
>

Later,
JP
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[Zim-wiki] Pasting from PowerPoint as text?

[Marco Cevoli]

Hi,

when I copy and paste text from Microsoft PowerPoint into Zim Wiki,
the text is pasted as an image. Is this the expected behaviour? Is
there an option to always paste text as plain text? Maybe it's a PPT
issue... I don't know...

Thanks in advance

Marco Cevoli

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