Greetings!

I am a new user, and have searched the archives for an exact match to my problem. I cannot get copy and paste to work in the same window of Inkscape. I can get the "cut" function to work, but not the other two. How do they work?


Thanks,
Gregory

Hi Gregory,

I have not heard of a similar problem before, but it certainly will help if you tell a bit more about which version of Inkscape you use, and on what platform so that others can help better. I have checked the reported bugs for Inkscape and no other user has reported similar problems. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape

Perhaps it will also help to know that Inkscape pastes under the mousecursor. So whatever you selected when you cut, will be pasted at mouse cursor location.

Hopefully others will shed some light on this.

Cheers,
Syllie

Yes that would be helpful. It is on a Mac running the latest version of Snow Leopard, using Inkscape 0.47. I could not get Inkscape 0.46 to even open on my computer. I have tried to have the object paste under the mouse cursor, but nothing happens. I also checked the "undo" menu, and it did not show that anything was copied.


Gregory

What are you trying to copy?

When I 1st started using Inkscape, I thought copy and paste was the same as with raster graphics -- whatever is selected will get copied. And that is true with full paths or objects in Inkscape. But for example, you can't select a segment of a path and expect the segment to get copied. It copies the whole path.

Also look at where you're trying to copy from and paste to. Make sure it's on the layer you intend (if you're using layers).

Guest wrote:It is on a Mac running the latest version of Snow Leopard, using Inkscape 0.47. I could not get Inkscape 0.46 to even open on my computer. I have tried to have the object paste under the mouse cursor, but nothing happens. I also checked the "undo" menu, and it did not show that anything was copied.

• FAQ - Inkscape Wiki: Copying and pasting in Inkscape creates pixellated images instead of copying the vector objects
• InkscapeForum.com: Mac Snow Leopard?
• Bug #307005 in Inkscape: “[OS X] copy & paste inserts a bitmap copy instead of the vector object”
• Bug #460197 in Inkscape: “Can't copy objects in pre4, Snow Leopard”

Guest wrote:I could not get Inkscape 0.46 to even open on my computer.

• Bug #392693 in Inkscape: “Conflict between bundled and system libxml dylib”: known issue, but as Inkscape 0.47 has been released since, there will be no new Inkscape 0.46 dot-release just for Snow Leopard.

I'm having this same problem. I'm experienced with various Adobe products, so I'm not imagining it.
47 version, snow leopard.
Selecting and copying as usual, but no type of Paste seems to put a copy anywhere...

This is working for me:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=3627#p17000

Hi,

By changing the preferences on X11, as suggested on this page:
http://stefaanlippens.net/Inkscape_Gimp ... ste_issues
I managed to fix this problem for myself.