Hi,

short: Clipboard contains RTF as text/richtext which should be text/rtf or application/rtf.

long:

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 the rtf content. I think this a bug in Libre Office Writer and it should fill the clipboard with text/rtf instead of text/richtext. Unfortunately I don't run the latest release .. so this might be fixed.

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 description, 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

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Default Style;}}
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\pgndec\pard\plain
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