I cannot get Inkscape 0.46 to paste anything at all that is copied from another application. I'm using 0.46 on a Mac running OS 10.4.11.

Works with Inkscape 0.46 on OS X 10.5.8 Leopard (with X11/Xquartz 2.4.0) for text and bitmaps:
ctrl+v pastes

• text copied from TextEdit: the text tool needs to be selected and the text insertion cursor blinking on-canvas waiting for text input
• bitmaps copied e.g. in Firefox: inserted like imported images as linked PNG (linked to a newly written PNG file on disk, sometimes - unfortunately - inside the application bundle (this is fixed in 0.47) or in your 'Home' folder)

Did you try all available 'paste' commands: ctrl+v, the buttons on the command bar and the menu commands 'Edit > Paste'? If everything fails this could be a limitation of the old X11/XFree86 version used by Apple on Tiger (I can't confirm this though - never having used Tiger myself). Have you updated X11 to 1.1.3 (available via Software Update)?

There has been one (confirmed) report with Inkscape 0.47pre1 for Mac OS X Tiger (i386) about randomly failing copy&paste within Inkscape but that seems most likely related to the newly implemented system clipboard support in Inkscape 0.47.

I cannot find bug reports about failing to paste from the OS X pasteboard into Inkscape 0.46, but AFAIK text and bitmaps are the only formats Inkscape 0.46 recognizes when pasting external content from the clipboard (anyone: please correct me if I'm wrong on this one!)

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druban wrote:Upgrade now anyway. 0.47 is very stable and no more buggy than 0.46 so you have nothing to lose

If you have access to a Mac with Tiger installed maybe you could compile a Tiger Universal app for Tim and others who are still waiting for a build of Inkscape 0.47 that runs on their OS. But as I said, the reports from an earlier prerelease build of 0.47 on Tiger show that the system clipboard support under the ancient X11 provided by Apple for Tiger seems worse or at least as limited in Inkscape 0.47 as with Inkscape 0.46. But we will know more when either one of the osx packagers has the resources to build - and if necessary bug-fix - a new package of Inkscape 0.47 Tiger Universal or other volunteers help out.

[ Support for copy/paste with system clipboard is a new feature of Inkscape 0.47 and the code to implement it for the clipboard has been rewritten to implement it ]

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SUV,

My first Mac was a 512. I think I have mastered the art of cutting and pasting in the last 22 years.

timstring wrote:I think I have mastered the art of cutting and pasting in the last 22 years.

Offering my apologies if my questions gave you the wrong impression: I don't doubt that you know the OS X side well. My questions were about working with X11, which slightly differs from OS X:

• the common OS X keyboard shortcuts using cmd+{c,v,o,q,…} for copy, paste, open, close, … do not work inside applications running under X11, you need to use ctrl instead.

To figure out where the error happens I wanted to make sure you didn't try to paste inside Inkscape using the OS X shortcut cmd+v.

(IIUC the different keyboard shortcuts and the missing menu bar integration are the main reasons why so many Mac users are asking for native builds of applications like Inkscape and GIMP)