Bug 109040 (RTF-Paste)

Summary: [META] RTF paste special bugs and enhancements
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) <philipz85>
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: cno, thomas.lendo, vsfoote
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on: 57464, 77778, 93362, 102599, 117640, 118461, 118667, 118676, 118950, 119022, 125265, 128029, 132874, 133615, 134170, 134945, 135068, 135100, 135139, 135143, 135151, 135170, 136449, 136727, 136807, 139077, 140853, 146366, 148908, 150509, 152368, 152694, 153518, 156547, 158984, 160303, 68985, 82728, 87379, 102627, 109343, 113357, 117642, 118339, 119081, 119255, 126975, 129010, 131831, 135083, 135142, 135160, 136284    
Bug Blocks: 81234, 108479    

Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-07-09 19:23:59 UTC 

    


    


      



        
          Comment 1
        

        
          Stéphane Guillou (stragu)

        

        
        

        
          2023-10-18 11:17:03 UTC
        

      






(Miklos Vajna in bug 157566 comment 7 and 9)
> Note that an easy way to test RTF paste problems is the
> SW_DEBUG_RTF_PASTE_FROM environment variable, it allows specifying a path
> and then if you ctrl-shift-v (paste special) into an empty Writer document,
> we'll read from that file on paste, not from the system clipboard. That's
> handy when trying to fix bugs like this.
> 1) start up Writer
>   [with e.g. `SW_DEBUG_RTF_PASTE_FROM=/path/to/test.rtf soffice --writer`]
> 2) type a character so you have something to cut
> 3) select the character
> 4) cut it with e.g. ctrl-x
> 5) ctrl-shift-v, now you can select rtf