I know that would work, but I'm not sure Windows users will like losing their Windows markup. Isn't pasteFromWordCleanupFile available to clean up the data?
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Tom Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
