user-generated rich text on coldfusion page

2010-02-10 Thread Craig Buckley
My (non-html-writing) customer wants to use ms-word to generate a portion of a coldfusion page. The idea is they can generate a file (.doc or .rtf or whatever) that I include on the page. I've looked at various tags including cfcontent, cfdocument, cfinclude to try to find out how to include

Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page

2010-02-10 Thread Ian Skinner
On 2/10/2010 7:13 AM, Craig Buckley wrote: Any Suggestions? Well if you want a browser that renders HTML to understand the formatting from these documents, then these documents should probably be rendered as HTML. Have you tried the save as HTML option that is included in the Word

Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page

2010-02-10 Thread Gerald Guido
The new version of CKeditor 3.x is pretty nice. It was FCKEditor. Adobe uses FCK 2.x in it's rich text verrsion of cftexarea. http://ckeditor.com/ It has a feature Paste from Word. I have not tried it but it might be worth looking at. As a word of warning. Inline wysiwyg editors can create

RE: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page

2010-02-10 Thread Eric Roberts
: Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page On 2/10/2010 7:13 AM, Craig Buckley wrote: Any Suggestions? Well if you want a browser that renders HTML to understand the formatting from these documents, then these documents should probably be rendered as HTML. Have you tried the save

Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page

2010-02-10 Thread Casey Dougall
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: I would highly recommend using the dreamweaver or other cleanup util as the code that word produces is exceedingly bloated. I haven't tried it recently, so MS may have cleaned it up a bit, but I remember

Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Bentley
I also suggest the 'Paste from Word' feature in FCKEditor. It is perhaps the best method of moving content from Word to Web. The only issue is Word can do much more then text so if the user tries to insert a photo and expects the graphics to automatically move into the editor, that will cause

RE: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page

2010-02-10 Thread Eric Nicholas Sweeney
I use FCK Editor (now ckeditor) in my CMS - and I have had very good results with it - as far as my customers being able to edit code. (And myself for that matter) But yeah - make sure they use the paste from word button - or the code they paste in will be nasty. Paste from word does a pretty