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Add clipboard format "Portable Document Format"

Inkscape copies to the clipboard in a variety of formats:

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Among those is application/pdf.

Many other vector editors register the PDF on the clipboard with the name Portable Document Format, for example Affinity Designer:

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Some programs actually expect the PDF format to be called Portable Document Format and will not allow to paste application/pdf.

If Inkscape would just store the same contents also under the name Portable Document Format there would be better interoperability.

To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information