Copy & paste text doesn't keep formatting

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Windows XP SP2, Inkscape 0.46

Write any longer text, choose a font, choose various sizes for some words, as well as various colours.

Select the whole text with ctrl+A, copy it, then paste it into a new Inkscape window. Only the font is kept, all the various colour and size formatting disappeared.

Inkscape should keep all the formatting informations when copy & pasting text.

[prkos (prkos)]

I can't reproduce this on linux.

Could you test a development version on winXP? Improvements have been made to clipboard handling so this might have been resolved.

[ScislaC (scislac)]

Can someone please see if this still persists with current SVN on Windows?

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed with Windows XP, build 21167.
The pasted object is merged in a single svg:tspan element instead of one for each different part of the text. Thus, it doesn't keep modified fonts either.
Simple example attached.

[Till (till-bald)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 12.04 with versions 0.48.3.1-1ubuntu1.1 and 0.48.4+27~ubuntu12.04.1

[MIchal ThomaT (michal-thoma)]

Confirming on Ubuntu 14.04 and Inkscape 0.91. Copy and paste will not keep any text formatting. It's copying in plane text mode.

[Alexandru Roman (alexandru.roman)]

Patch committed: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/15553

[Geoff (gphillips)]

Pasting text that was selected using Text tool (first drag over formatted text and copy) loses all formatting for me also. I use italics a lot for Mathematics writing, and am unable to retain italics when copying and pasting text. I use windows 10 and Inkscape 0.92. Very frustrating.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

@Geoff: Fix Committed means that this has been fixed. The fix is going to be available in Inkscape 0.93.

[Geoff (gphillips)]

My apologies. That's great. Thanks for that.

Kind regards
Geoff Phillips
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On 29/05/2017 10:54 PM, "Hachmann" <email address hidden> wrote:

> @Geoff: Fix Committed means that this has been fixed. The fix is going
> to be available in Inkscape 0.93.
>
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> Title:
> Copy & paste text doesn't keep formatting
>
> Status in Inkscape:
> Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Windows XP SP2, Inkscape 0.46
>
> Write any longer text, choose a font, choose various sizes for some
> words, as well as various colours.
>
> Select the whole text with ctrl+A, copy it, then paste it into a new
> Inkscape window. Only the font is kept, all the various colour and
> size formatting disappeared.
>
> Inkscape should keep all the formatting informations when copy &
> pasting text.
>
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