Long string of text pasted from other programs (e.g. Word or Chrome) pastes as multiple rectangle swith text and is restricted in width.
Bug #1738319 reported by
Geoff
This bug affects 1 person
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Inkscape |
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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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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...