How to paste richtext with images to a QTextEdit

[anda_skoa]

Is it even possible to paste these into Qt?

QMimeData has no restrictions on what the data can be.
The data might need some processing if it is not one of the things the class has convenience API for (images, URIs, text, HTML).

Is the solution to convert the rtf formatted data to html ?

That might be an option. Windows might even have some facility to convert RTF into HTML.

Is there any easy way to extract the embedded images ?

You'll probably need to search MSDN for that, it is not unlikely that Microsoft has tools/libraries for that.

Cheers,
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