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* Some thoughts on non-text formats in clipboard
@ 2004-01-23  8:09 Øyvind Harboe
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From: Øyvind Harboe @ 2004-01-23  8:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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One problem is data format conversion. Clearly it is not feasible to
implement the conversion back and forth between X clipboard formats and
Windows formats. There are too many formats and combinations. 

Here is what I do today:

- Copy in e.g. OO under Linux 
- Paste into a new OO file under Linux
- Save to disk under Linux
- ftp/scp, etc. the file to my Windows machine
- Load up in OO under Windows
- Copy
- Paste whereever.

This is a bit laborious, but it shows that format conversion code
exists, though I'm not sure how to levarage it to increase of ease of
use.

Øyvind



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