On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Brian Sutherland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:03:50PM -0400, Tom Hoffman wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Alan Elkner <[email protected]> wrote: >> > We have an instance of a school (SLA) where there is a teacher that >> > uses Microsoft Word and then cut and paste into the fckEditor. This >> > results in data that has MS markup and various other annoying meta >> > data that causes the PDF view to crash. We addressed this issue with >> > a patch to their custom PDF view that filters out the corrupt data >> > into something that can be printed. >> > >> > Tom found some rather informative links that address how to fix the >> > paste problem which would involve changing our fckEditor widget to >> > change the way the JavaScript classes are instantiated: >> > >> > http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html >> > (searching for Word yields various config settings) >> > http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide/Setting_Configurations >> >> Basically, the two main options seem to be to add a "paste from Word" >> button, or just change a setting to strip all formatting from all >> pastes. I think the second one (stripping) is fine. > > Just as a data point, we seem to have good results with this > setting: > > FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText = true ;
Sounds good to me. --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
