Re: [libreoffice-users] Copying formatted text as RTF

Hi Rémy,

thank you for your reply. I'm using xclip because the scenario I am 
using is copy and paste. Therefore the content of the clipboard is my 
point of interest.

So maybe LO does good exporting to RTF when saving to file, but I'm 
talking about that it's does not a good job (as far as I can tell) when 
copying contents to the clipboard.


Regards,
Christian

On 29.01.2016 22:53, Remy Gauthier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure why you are using xclip to extract the text, but I did a
> small experiment where I saved a copy a of a LOW document as RTF (Save
> As... then RFT format) and I was able to get a reasonably good looking
> document when I opened the resulting RTF file with MS-Wordpad.
>
> I am, however, using LO 5 on Fedora which could explain why I get better
> results than you.
>
> I hope this helps a bit.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rémy Gauthier.
>
> Le vendredi 29 janvier 2016 à 09:07 +0000, Rösch, Christian a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using Libre Office Writer [Version: 4.2.8.2 Build ID:
> > 420m0(Build:2)] and basically want to copy text as RTF to test my
> > application against input from Libre Office.
> >
> > My app understands text/rtf. However when copying from LOW my app does
> > not import anything. Using
> >
> > xclip -out -primary -t TARGETS
> >
> > I see that the target text/richtext is available. I did not know
> > anything about this before so I started searching for it. My current
> > result is that text/richtext is basically text/enriched which is
> > something like HTML made for mails and different to text/rtf which is
> > made by Microsoft. Please correct me if I'm wrong, the whole mail builds
> > on that knowledge.
> >
> > Now when accessing the data in my clipboard via
> >
> > xclip -out -primary -t text/richtext
> >
> > I get something rtf-like. Which leads me to the question:
> >
> > Is this a bug in Libre Office Writer? And should it fill the clipboard
> > with text/rtf instead of text/richtext?
> >
> > See:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1341
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1521
> >
> > I'm working under Ubuntu. And this is the end of the mail, following the
> > full output of the xclip command (which could also be a source of evil
> > ;-) ):
> >
> >
> > christian.roesch@...:~$ xclip -out -primary -t TARGETS
> > text/plain;charset=utf-8
> > text/plain;charset=UTF-8
> > UTF-8
> > UTF8_STRING
> > COMPOUND_TEXT
> > STRING
> > application/x-openoffice-embed-source-xml;windows_formatname="Star Embed
> > Source (XML)"
> > text/richtext
> > text/html
> > application/x-openoffice-objectdescriptor-xml;windows_formatname="Star
> > Object Descriptor
> > (XML)";classname="8BC6B165-B1B2-4EDD-aa47-dae2ee689dd6";typename="LibreOffice
> > 4.2 Text
> > Document";viewaspect="1";width="16999";height="2995";posx="0";posy="0"
> > MULTIPLE
> >
> > christian.roesch@...:~$ xclip -out -primary -t text/richtext
> > {\rtf1\ansi\deff3\adeflang1025
> > {\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Times New
> > Roman;}{\f1\froman\fprq2\fcharset2 Symbol;}{\f2\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0
> > Arial;}{\f3\froman\fprq2\fcharset0 Liberation Serif{\*\falt Times New
> > Roman};}{\f4\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Liberation Sans{\*\falt
> > Arial};}{\f5\fnil\fprq2\fcharset0 Droid Sans
> > Fallback;}{\f6\fswiss\fprq0\fcharset128
> > FreeSans;}{\f7\fnil\fprq2\fcharset0 FreeSans;}}
> > {\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red128\green128\blue128;}
> > {\stylesheet{\s0\snext0\nowidctlpar{\*\hyphen2\hyphlead2\hyphtrail2\hyphmax0}\cf0\kerning1\dbch\af5\langfe2052\dbch\af7\alang1081\fs24\lang1033
> > Normal;}
> > {\s15\sbasedon0\snext15\noline\dbch\af6 Index;}
> > {\s16\sbasedon0\snext16\sb120\sa120\noline\i\dbch\af6\afs24\ai\fs24
> > Caption;}
> > {\s17\sbasedon18\snext17\sl288\slmult1\sb0\sa140\dbch\af6 List;}
> > {\s18\sbasedon0\snext18\sl288\slmult1\sb0\sa140 Text Body;}
> > {\s19\sbasedon0\snext18\sb240\sa120\keepn\dbch\af5\dbch\af7\afs28\loch\f4\fs28
> > Heading;}
> > }{\info{\comment LibreOffice}{\vern67241986}}\deftab709
> >
> > {\*\pgdsctbl
> > {\pgdsc0\pgdscuse451\pgwsxn11906\pghsxn16838\marglsxn1134\margrsxn1134\margtsxn1134\margbsxn1134\pgdscnxt0
> > Default Style;}}
> > \formshade\paperh16838\paperw11906\margl1134\margr1134\margt1134\margb1134\sectd\sbknone\sectunlocked1\pgndec\pgwsxn11906\pghsxn16838\marglsxn1134\margrsxn1134\margtsxn1134\margbsxn1134\ftnbj\ftnstart1\ftnrstcont\ftnnar\aenddoc\aftnrstcont\aftnstart1\aftnnrlc
> > \pgndec\pard\plain
> > \s0\nowidctlpar{\*\hyphen2\hyphlead2\hyphtrail2\hyphmax0}\cf0\kerning1\dbch\af5\langfe2052\dbch\af7\alang1081\fs24\lang1033{\b\ab\rtlch
> > \ltrch\loch
> > EXAMPLE}
> > \par }

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