Copy/Paste issue

[Argle Bargle]

OK, I know that this will borderline on the esoteric or arcane, but I'm reporting it anyways. I have a Windows form application that has a window that is essentially a browser window where I insert HTML. There is a mix of fonts, Bold and Italic in the window. I copy and paste that text into Word or LibreOffice Writer and the pasted text mirrors the font styling. So far, so good.

If I attempt the same paste into Affinity text boxes (so far, tested with Publisher and Designer) the styling is stripped. This holds true if I copy and paste from Edge or Chrome. However, if I first paste into LibreOffice Writer, then copy again and paste into any Affinity program, the fonts and styles show up. (I didn't test with Word, but I'm assuming something similar.)

Expectation: Affinity should handle the font styling from browsers the same as from Writer or Word without needing either as an intermediary.

[NathanC]

Hi @Argle Bargle,

I've discussed this internally with QA, and this is more of a feature request than a bug. Copying text from Chrome picks up the Unicode data and the HTML formatting data, this HTML data is not parsed/interpreted by Publisher since it isn't supported and as a result the text will be imported as unformatted unicode text.

While Notably word processors like MS Word are capable of doing this, more comparably during testing I found that InDesign isn't capable of doing this either currently. Interestingly, on Mac while using Safari copying does infact pick up text styling when pasted into Publisher possibly due to Safari initially copying as rich text.