Long string of text pasted from other programs (e.g. Word or Chrome) pastes as multiple rectangle swith text and is restricted in width.

[Geoff]

When I paste a long string of text (e.g. pi to ten thousand decimal places) copied from Chrome or Word into a text box in Inkscape in a landscape document, I get a box of text of portrait width (e.g. a bit over half a landscape page width), with each line surrounded by a rectangle. I cannot get a full page or text box of page width and am forced to delete rectangles one by one and then I still end up with several separate text lines rather than one continuous flow. I am running Windows 10 and Inkscape 0.92 and attach a file with the result of such a paste into Inkscape shown.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

This seems to be a Word-"feature" (or a feature of any RTF capable application for that matter).

As a workaround you can just copy your text into a plain-text editor first (e.g. notepad).

Obviously it would be nice if Inkscape could behave more clever in this case...

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Interestingly behavior differs between Word 2016 (produces proper <tspan>s in a single <text> element) and Wordpad (produces individual <text> elements grouped together).

Possibly related: bug #240382 (master seems to behave like 0.92.x in this case, though)

[Geoff (gphillips)]

Thanks for that Eduard. I suspected something like this as I found another
website and was able to cut and paste pi as one long string eventually -
but then Inkscape failed to print - all I got was a blank page! It sems
I'll just have to avoid pi.

Kind regards
Geoff Phillips
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On 15/12/2017 9:45 PM, "Eduard Braun" <email address hidden> wrote:

> This seems to be a Word-"feature" (or a feature of any RTF capable
> application for that matter).
>
> As a workaround you can just copy your text into a plain-text editor
> first (e.g. notepad).
>
> Obviously it would be nice if Inkscape could behave more clever in this
> case...
>
> ** Changed in: inkscape
> Status: New => Confirmed
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> Title:
> Long string of text pasted from other programs (e.g. Word or Chrome)
> pastes as multiple rectangle swith text and is restricted in width.
>
> Status in Inkscape:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When I paste a long string of text (e.g. pi to ten thousand decimal
> places) copied from Chrome or Word into a text box in Inkscape in a
> landscape document, I get a box of text of portrait width (e.g. a bit
> over half a landscape page width), with each line surrounded by a
> rectangle. I cannot get a full page or text box of page width and am
> forced to delete rectangles one by one and then I still end up with
> several separate text lines rather than one continuous flow. I am
> running Windows 10 and Inkscape 0.92 and attach a file with the result
> of such a paste into Inkscape shown.
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