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# Deprecated symbols

Review symbols that are no longer in active development, and their recommended replacements.

## Overview

Although these symbols are available for use, Apple is no longer actively developing them, and may remove them in a future release. Apple recommends moving away from these symbols and using their indicated replacements instead. Check the individual symbol pages for the recommended replacements.

## Topics

### Deprecated constants

[`static let filePromise: NSPasteboard.PasteboardType`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPasteboard/PasteboardType/filePromise)

Promised files.

[`static let inkText: NSPasteboard.PasteboardType`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPasteboard/PasteboardType/inkText)

Ink text data.

[`static let postScript: NSPasteboard.PasteboardType`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPasteboard/PasteboardType/postScript)

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) code.

[`static let vCard: NSPasteboard.PasteboardType`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPasteboard/PasteboardType/vCard)

VCard data.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSColorPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSColorPboardType)

`NSColor` data.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSFilenamesPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSFilenamesPboardType)

An array of `NSString` objects designating one or more filenames.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSFontPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSFontPboardType)

Font and character information.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSHTMLPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSHTMLPboardType)

HTML (which an `NSTextView` object can read from, but not write to).

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSMultipleTextSelectionPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSMultipleTextSelectionPboardType)

Multiple text selection.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSPDFPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPDFPboardType)

PDF data.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSPICTPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPICTPboardType)

QuickDraw picture data.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSRTFDPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSRTFDPboardType)

RTFD formatted file contents.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSRTFPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSRTFPboardType)

Rich Text Format (RTF) data.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSRulerPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSRulerPboardType)

Paragraph formatting information.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSStringPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSStringPboardType)

`NSString` data.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSTIFFPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTIFFPboardType)

`NSString` data.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSTabularTextPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSTabularTextPboardType)

An `NSString` object containing tab-separated fields of text.

[`extern NSPasteboardType NSURLPboardType;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSURLPboardType)

`NSURL` data for one file or resource.

[`extern NSPasteboardType const NSPasteboardTypeFindPanelSearchOptions;`](/documentation/AppKit/NSPasteboardTypeFindPanelSearchOptions)

Type for the Find panel metadata property list.


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