how to paste from html email into libre office

golson765 · November 23, 2012, 10:03am

Hello,

I sometimes get important emails that are formatted in html with pictures, graphs, etc., that need
to be cut and pasted into a libre office writer document. However, when I do copy and paste, it
only pastes the text, and not any of the pictures or graphics. I couldn’t find how to do this with
a google search or the help items; there was only something about pasting from the web.

When I hit “paste special” it only has one offer to paste unformatted text.

How do I get the pictures and links that are in an email to also be pasted into my libreoffice
document? I am using libreoffice 3.5 and kmail 4.9.2.

robin_listas · November 23, 2012, 11:08am

On 2012-11-23 10:03, golson765 wrote:
> When I hit “paste special” it only has one offer to paste unformatted text.

Try pasting from thunderbird.

> How do I get the pictures and links that are in an email to also be pasted into my libreoffice
> document? I am using libreoffice 3.5 and kmail 4.9.2.

Pictures get inserted as links that load after you open the document.
Kmail support of html has always been lacking.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

user · November 24, 2012, 2:06pm

On 11/23/2012 06:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-11-23 10:03, golson765 wrote:
>> When I hit “paste special” it only has one offer to paste unformatted text.
>
> Try pasting from thunderbird.
>
>> How do I get the pictures and links that are in an email to also be pasted into my libreoffice
>> document? I am using libreoffice 3.5 and kmail 4.9.2.
>
> Pictures get inserted as links that load after you open the document.
> Kmail support of html has always been lacking.
>

Yes, it worked from thunderbird, thanks for the tip. Very interesting. I
have been trying to learn how to work around kmail, and I end up going
back and forth between kmail and thunderbird. There is only one feature
that kmail has which I like better than thunderbird - the threaded
emails in kmail also have an option of segregating separately the emails
that have been received in the last 5 days and weeks. If thunderbird had
that feature, I would go entirely with thunderbird, as it is faster and
does not take such a long time to synchronize like kmail.

user · November 24, 2012, 2:41pm

grglsn wrote:
There is only one feature
> that kmail has which I like better than thunderbird - the threaded
> emails in kmail also have an option of segregating separately the emails
> that have been received in the last 5 days and weeks.

You have custom views for that. I have been using TB and I’m sure it had
that.

I’ve changed to SeaMonkey a good while ago and it at least does.

Vahis

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robin_listas · November 25, 2012, 12:14am

On 2012-11-24 14:06, grglsn wrote:
> On 11/23/2012 06:08 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> On 2012-11-23 10:03, golson765 wrote:

> Yes, it worked from thunderbird, thanks for the tip. Very interesting.

Welcome.
But I’m confused: the OP was written by golson765, and instead of his
answer I get yours :-?

> I
> have been trying to learn how to work around kmail, and I end up going
> back and forth between kmail and thunderbird. There is only one feature
> that kmail has which I like better than thunderbird - the threaded
> emails in kmail also have an option of segregating separately the emails
> that have been received in the last 5 days and weeks. If thunderbird had
> that feature, I would go entirely with thunderbird, as it is faster and
> does not take such a long time to synchronize like kmail.

I’m not familiar with that feature; I use threaded sort, then sort by date.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))