copy text from email in dark mode pastes white text into affinity

[Gilescooperuk 6]

Pretty much as the subject says - OSX 10.14.4

AP version 1.70.292

OSX Mail running in Dark Mode

Paste from email and affinity produces a block of white text, obviously the email wasn't written in white but it would be more useful if it took the original HTML rather than the displayed code...

Strange one...

[walt.farrell 1,156]

Strange, indeed. Have you tried Paste Without Formatting, or Paste Special..., to see if either of them helps?

[Gilescooperuk 6]

Paste without formatting does work, but it doesn't help when the email is already formatted as you want to put it in the page.... (i.e. bold, italic etc)

[walt.farrell 1,156]

Good point.

[Old Bruce 402]

can you switch Mail to 'normal' mode to copy the text?

[Gilescooperuk 6]

Hmm just quickly tried in a new document and it appears to work - looks like my machine had a strange problem as I can't reproduce it!

Definitely doing it before...

[GabrielM 651]

I have closed this for now. If you can reproduce it, let us know. 

 

 

[Gilescooperuk 6]

I just reproduced it

you can see in the video - I selected the text in the email

Switched to affinity

did a paste - got white text then selected the text and changed it to black

Doesn't do it everytime though

 

[GabrielM 651]

This seems to be a MacOS issue, and not an Affinity issue.  

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/12/06/textedit-1-14-not-the-dark-mode-youd-expect/

TLDR

The text is copied with that format - as white text. You would need to paste it without format