Re: Copy/Paste Rich Text between Gtk Apps

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

Yes, you can copy/paste anything, provided that the sender and
receiver can agree on a common format.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Clipboards.html

I think freedesktop.org now maintain the list of all the types and
formats for X.

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:10:56 +0530, Gaurav Jain <gaurav adobe com> wrote:
> I wanted to know whether copy/pasting between multiple gtk applications
> of "Rich Text" is possible or not?
>
> For example, can a rich text sentence written in Abiword or
> OpenOffice.org be copied and pasted into another Gtk application's
> GtkTextView widget while preserving the "richness" of the text, i.e.,
> Text tags, etc.??