For now are you going to change the widget to convert to plain text for installation at SLA? It wouldn't be a bad idea to get that much into the release.
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Justas Sadzevicius <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alan Elkner wrote: >> 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? > > Alan, I'll check if there is some quick setting. If no easy solution > comes up, I'd say stripping the markup when pasting looks compelling for > now; and we can/should check how to put the "full" word paste back in > once we upgrade the FCK Editor - after the Lucid release. > > Sounds right? > > Justas > >> 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAku7mSoACgkQaCT+W0+kcjRh2QCfWCoqZjSA+bR4M/IUnE8Bt9y5 > f4cAn3DiIFy1MddPkhJYYnhZUhbQ9yPE > =U8sZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
