<snip> Is there a secret way to copy and paste text from other applications? I have text in a Firefox page, selected and copied it, but Scribus continues to paste something I placed in the clipboard several hours ago from another program. I pasted the new text into Gedit as an interim, but Scribus is still seeing the old data. </snip> ------------==========---------- but Scribus is still seeing the old data. ----- because that is still in the buffer.
I use this method frequently. Paste the selection into gedit, save it with a .txt extention (for instance xxxxx.txt) to an appropriate text folder The name doesn't matter unless you want to refer to it at a later stage. Then in Scribus open a text box, Get Text and open the xxxxx.txt file and it inserts the text file instead of the buffer. It's a round-about way but has saved me a huge amount of time in the long run. Keep the text file for the duration until you have completed the assignment. Also I have pasted int Gedit then saved it, then with Scribus and gedit open, copy from gedit then cut and paste into a Scribus text box using <Edit Text> from then close the text file. Basically we put the gedit copy into the buffer. Works for me Roger.
