Copy text from applications which don't store their clipboard entries as EMF metafiles without creating a text element first

Steps to reproduce:

  • open Inkscape
  • open various other programs and write some text there
  • copy the text in one of the programs
  • paste it into Inkscape (not in a text object, just click on the canvas)

What happened?

Pasting works from:

  • Microsoft Word
  • WordPad
  • Microsoft Excel

Pasting doesn't work from:

  • Windows built-in editor
  • Notepad++
  • Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge

What should have happened?

The behavior is the same for every text source.

Inkscape Version and Operating System:

  • Inkscape Version: 1.1-dev (03ae7f7, 2020-01-04)
  • Operating System: Windows 10
  • Operating System version: 10.0.18362
Edited by Jonathan Neuhauser
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