This is a read-only archive of the inkscapeforum.com site. You can search for info here or post new questions and comments at I'm a beginner user of inkscape and can't manage to merge two postscript files.
I open one encapsulated postscript file, then the other. I then copy or cut one of the figures (with cut rather than copy I know that all of figure is selected). I go to the other window and paste, but all that appears is an empty frame of the correct size. What am I doing wrong?
Running Inkscape 0.48 on Mac OS 10.5.8
Thanks for any help!
problem with copy/paste between windows
Re: problem with copy/paste between windows
norbert wrote:I go to the other window and paste, but all that appears is an empty frame of the correct size.
- DId you already change the X11 preferences to work around a conflict between Inkscape and X11/XQuartz? (described for example here)
- What does the status line message tell, after you pasted the cut selection into the second window (when the 'empty' selection frame is still active)?
- alternatively: what happens if you import both EPS files into the same (new) Inkscape document (using menu 'File > Import…')?
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norbert
Re: problem with copy/paste between windows
[*]DId you already change the X11 preferences to work around a conflict between Inkscape and X11/XQuartz? (described for example here)
My X11 (XQuartz 2.1.6) does not have a preference tab called Pasteboard. Only Input/Output/Security.
[*]What does the status line message tell, after you pasted the cut selection into the second window (when the 'empty' selection frame is still active)?
I have no status line messages at all.
[*]alternatively: what happens if you import both EPS files into the same (new) Inkscape document (using menu 'File > Import…')?
That works!! Thanks so much!
Re: problem with copy/paste between windows
Please read this note on the Xquartz page about Apple's X11 2.1.6 on OS X Leopard and install the localization updates as described to get the missing pasteboard preferences pane of X11.norbert wrote:My X11 (XQuartz 2.1.6) does not have a preference tab called Pasteboard. Only Input/Output/Security.
I would highly recommend to install the localization updates and change X11's pasteboard preferences - even if the 'import' solution helps to work around the issue: without the changed X11 settings you will not be able to copy&paste vector objects even inside the same Inkscape window (all vector objects are pasted as bitmap images).
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norbert
Re: problem with copy/paste between windows
After the X11 upgrade, copy/paste between windows now works for me. Thanks