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bug #65288: Copy&Paste of tables from output view does not copy graphics but text

Submitter:  Friedrich Beckmann <beckmanf>
Submitted:  Sat 10 Feb 2024 04:14:26 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Graphical User Interface Severity:  5 - Average
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  None
Effort:  0.00
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Sat 10 Feb 2024 04:14:26 PM UTC, original submission:  

The copy&paste operation in the output view copies tables as text but not as image. The discussion of this topic is here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2024-02/msg00009.html

The behaviour changed versus a previous release with this commit

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/commit/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-view.c?id=022faa5986fdeae5adb7be043e8a82e98db23098

which was made to copy&paste table data as editable data with libreoffice. I could reproduce the behaviour on MacOS. On MacOS the table data is only available as text (maybe UTF-8) also if I paste it in LibreOffice Calc. As Andreas mentioned the tables look o.k. if rendered with a fixed width font but this is not scalable for wide tables.

I did a test to also add the graphics to the clipboard. Then LibreOffice Calc on MacOS pastes the graphics instead of the text as default. Via "Paste Special" I can decide to paste the text which is also available in the clipboard.

The clipboard format handling depends on mime types and I have the impression that this does not work seamlessly for odt formats on MacOS.

Friedrich Beckmann <beckmanf>
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