clipboard - cannot copy paste from inkscape to scribus

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core

I recall a few years ago createing some nice booklets in scribus. My workflow was to create the finer graphics in inkscape and then using the clipboard to bring them into scribus.
Back then I was on a Win7 machine. Now I am on linux.

This clipboard interoperability is not working now. Is this feature deliberately take out or blocked in Scribus.

I am finding some interesting effects with the clipboard controls that point to some SW problem here.

If I use CTRL+C, CTRL+V to try this operation between inkscape and scribus, there is nothing pasted. In fact according to Scribus, there is nothing in the clipboard - the option in the menu edit>paste is greyed out.

But if I use the menu (edit>copy)in inkscape to copy (not keyboard shortcut), then the edit>paste option in the menu of scribus is now active.
But still nothing is pasted.

Can anyone comment on copy and pasting between inkscape and scribus. How it works if it still does at all?

btw, trying to get whole inkscape documents into scribus is also not working so well. This is in another forum post here.

for anyone interested to see the inkscape file I am dealing with, its attached.

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RodneyLee

thats a .pdf, inkscape files are .svg, you can drag and drop .svp into scribus, they work great (1.5.5 anyway)

core


core

Just tried to drag a .svg file and drop it into scribus - nothing happened

Not sure what you were meaning in your post

Quote from: RodneyLee on March 22, 2020, 03:29:06 PM
you can drag and drop .svp into scribus, they work great (1.5.5 anyway)

RodneyLee

I just did it, worked great (drag and Drop) you d have to have a page open or new page created, left click and hold image, drag onto a page in scribus ( I use 1.5.5) let go of mouse button, works for all images AFAIK

you can then ungroup your SVG and arrange everything on the page

RodneyLee

you have a few invisible artifacts in bottom half that make your image frame bigger than the graphic's you'll want to ungroup that section again to remove them

core

Interesting.
I have tried this a few time but there is no reaction from Scribus.

Just to be certain, steps as follows


  • open scribus, new document
  • open file explorer and go to the .svg file
  • reduce the size of the explorer window so the scribus working sheet is visible
  • click and drag the .svg file onto the open scribus workspace
  • this is when I expect something to happen in scribus, but nothing happens

Is this how you did it and it worked?

can you please share the versions of SW and the OS you are on

RodneyLee

only difference I use LinuxMint 19.3 and I dragged the file from desktop to scribus not from a file manager, Scribus 1.5.5

RodneyLee

I just tested this from my file manager and it did not work, works fine from my desktop
here it is still grouped

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core

Thanks for your testing this. I tried to open the file you send, but scribus did not like it. An error suggesting version incompatibility came up.

Just tried to drag an .svg from the desktop into the scribus workspace, but this did not work either.

Someone in the Inkscape forums suggested that the 1.5.x scribus handles .svg's better.


RodneyLee

it's worth the upgrade 1.5.5 seems very stable also