Copying System Clipboard as Styled Text Converts It to Plain Text

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How can I tease out the differences?

To see the set of macOC UTIs (Uniform Type Identifiers) for the pasteboard flavours in your clipboard at any given moment, you can use a macro like:

Clipboard Viewer

Allows us to inspect all clipboard type bundle ids, and any textually representable data that they contain, in JSON format. For example, if we we copy an object in OmniGraffle, it gives us a JSON representation of all the object properties, which we can use in a Javascript action.

OmniGraffle arrow as clipboard data

{ "com.omnigroup.OmniGraffle.GraphicType as propertyList": { "Layers": [ { "Print": true, "Lock": false, …

Many applications define their own UTI strings, for specific data types, but the key system-defined types for general interchange include:

• public.utf8-plain-text
• public.html
• public.rtf