Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:28 am Post subject: transfering charts |Â clipboard usage
Hi everybody,
I recently installed OO and I am very satisfied how well it already works. Congratulations and thanks to all the people involved in the Mac/X11 version so far.
I wonder, if I could transfer parts which I put into the clipboard in OO to the OS X clipboard?
I am building charts in the spreadsheet module of OO and I would like to put them into an OS X graphics application.
Right now I'm copying the chart into an OO text document, save it as MS Word file. Open this one in OS X Classic Ragtime and copy it from there to GraphicConverter. This is a somewhat complicated way, but furthermore the graph is not absolutely the same to the one which I have created in OO.
I would be very thankful for any suggestions or links which could improve my workflow in OO,
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:07 am Post subject:
Clipboard integration is definitely one of the weakest things for X11 applications versus an OS X native version. Right now the exchange between environments on the clipboard is pretty much limited to unstyled text. (The technical lowdown: MacOS X has a notion of scrap 'flavors' to advertise the type of data on the clipboard; X11 has no such standard so folks have invented their own for different apps.)
In terms of moving charts back and forth, you may want to try exporting straight as a graphic instead of as a chart to ragtime. One way that you can try doing this is saving the spreadsheet as HTML (it's an option all the way at the bottom of the format menu). This will actually create a JPEG of the chart for embedding in the HTML output as an image.
If you need other formats, you can try embedding the chart within a Draw document and exporting that to a dfiferent format with some of its graphics filters.
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