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Yep, Excel does something similar where it asks you "you have a large selection copied [(marching ants)], do you want to keep it available after closing Excel?"

• dylan604 4y ago
  wow, that's a big selection. after all, it's just text, right? or am i selling it short? I understand when Adobe notifies that the clipboard is large since it's rasterized (typically) image data. what in the world is in the buffer for Excel that size is pushing limts?
  • bobbylarrybobby 4y ago
    A lot of the time it's not just text, but rich text. For instance I'm pretty sure the font is preserved if you paste into a font-aware app.
    • dylan604 4y ago
      okay, but I have way more RAM than even the largest of font's I have encountered (and I've seen a few). also, what an absolute bozo way of doing things to include the font rather than the path to the font
      • ookgfyhfg 4y ago
        The Rich Text Format specifies the font of each word, etc. That is what the GP meant. I don't think there is any implication that font files are being included with the data.
        • dylan604 4y ago
          Okay but then that's still text to describe how to write more text. How big can that be?