Bug 147154 - The Paste Special dialog is empty if the clipboard has PDF, which *can* be pasted (now) into Impress at least
Summary: The Paste Special dialog is empty if the clipboard has PDF, which *can* be pa...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Blocks: Paste-Special
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Reported: 2022-02-03 08:47 UTC by How can I remove my account?
Modified: 2023-04-12 05:27 UTC (History)
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Description How can I remove my account? 2022-02-03 08:47:47 UTC
Description:
Since a few days, in master it is possible to paste PDF from the clipboard into Impress at least.

If you have application/pdf (and nothing else) on the clipboard, Control-V in an Impress document pastes the rendering of the PDF snippet into the document, and the PDF document that was on the clipboard is also included in the Impress document at least if saved as .odp, in addition to the PNG rendering of it.

However, the Edit > Paste Special > Paste Special... dialog is completely empty even Edit > Paste pastes the PDF. This is misleading.

Steps to Reproduce:
(On Linux, to make this easier to check)

1. Put a PDF document onto the clipboard. How to do this apparently depend on what distro you are running and whether using Wayland or not. For me, the command I used was:

wl-copy --type application/pdf <foo.pdf

2. Start a master build of LibreOffice Impress. Do Edit > Paste (or Control-V). You get the PDF file, rendered as a bitmap.

3. Do Edit > Paste Special > Paste Special... . Nothing is listed.

Actual Results:
Nothing is listed.

Expected Results:
The Paste Special dialog should say "PDF" or "Portable Document Format".


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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Comment 1 Mike Kaganski 2022-02-03 12:22:40 UTC
Just a note that on Windows, this doesn't paste anything at all (clipboard was initialized using CopyQ: 'copyq copy application/pdf - < c:\file.pdf'). But maybe it's OK for Windows (no idea if some application ever puts application/pdf to clipboard; maybe the type should be different (some magic constant) on Windows).
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2022-12-08 12:07:59 UTC
Repro under X11 with

xclip -t application/pdf -sel clip < foo.pdf

Arch Linux 64-bit
Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 705b2924a14841883b4a8cac549f7af326d7a185
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.0; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded Jumbo
Built on 8 December 2022
Comment 3 SaintOtis 2023-04-12 05:27:08 UTC Comment hidden (spam)