PSPP-BUG: [bug #65288] Copy&Paste of tables from output view does not copy graphics but text

[Friedrich Beckmann]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65288>

                 Summary: Copy&Paste of tables from output view does not copy
graphics but text
                   Group: PSPP
               Submitter: beckmanf
               Submitted: Sat 10 Feb 2024 04:14:26 PM UTC
                Category: Graphical User Interface
                Severity: 5 - Average
                  Status: Confirmed
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: None
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00


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Date: Sat 10 Feb 2024 04:14:26 PM UTC By: Friedrich Beckmann <beckmanf>
The copy&paste operation in the output view copies tables as text but not as
image. The discussion of this topic is here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2024-02/msg00009.html

The behaviour changed versus a previous release with this commit

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/commit/src/ui/gui/psppire-output-view.c?id=022faa5986fdeae5adb7be043e8a82e98db23098

which was made to copy&paste table data as editable data with libreoffice. I
could reproduce the behaviour on MacOS. On MacOS the table data is only
available as text (maybe UTF-8) also if I paste it in LibreOffice Calc. As
Andreas mentioned the tables look o.k. if rendered with a fixed width font but
this is not scalable for wide tables.

I did a test to also add the graphics to the clipboard. Then LibreOffice Calc
on MacOS pastes the graphics instead of the text as default. Via "Paste
Special" I can decide to paste the text which is also available in the
clipboard.

The clipboard format handling depends on mime types and I have the impression
that this does not work seamlessly for odt formats on MacOS.








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