Pasting as RTF

[Jeremy Reichman]

James,

When I "Paste as Plain Text" in Entourage, I get the RTF-formatted output
with arrows, checkmarks, and the like.

It's odd that I get the same thing in BBEdit 6.5, because as far as I know,
it doesn't accept non-text pastes -- demos of it playing color-corrected
video at conferences notwithstanding. (It never did for me before, but I'll
admit that I don't know what has changed in the intervening time. It always
pasted plain text from OO.)

Does OO have any control of what makes it to the pasteboard? Could it not be
sending plain text data or something?

Thanks!

- Jeremy


> If the app you're pasting into understands RTF then it will likely pull
> the RTF version off of the pasteboard. I believe that apps are supposed
> to prefer the richest representation that they can understand.
> 
> If you open a new mail window (in Mail) and its format is set to plain
> text then you should get the text version every time. If it's set to
> rich then you should get the RTF version every time.
> 
> I can't say what Entourage does with its mail windows or if you can
> force them into a plain text mode. If you can then I would expect it to
> grab the text version.