user-generated rich text on coldfusion page
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 the rich text from a word document into the page seamlessly. I've tried saving the word doc as a doc, xps and rtf to no avail. They want to bullet, change font color, font size etc so a simple entry of text into a database won't work. Any Suggestions? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330515 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
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 as HTML option that is included in the Word program. Most people would deride the HTML the program produces, in fact many tools, like Dreamweaver contain Word HTML Clean up functions, but it should work. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page
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 some pretty dodgy html and repeated formating can create some pretty horrific HTML. I have not been very happy with the results at times but for simple formatting it does the trick. Ian has a good point as well. There are apps out there that can clean up Word's HTML, which is ugly as sin. HTH G! On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Craig Buckley ceb...@aol.com wrote: 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 the rich text from a word document into the page seamlessly. I've tried saving the word doc as a doc, xps and rtf to no avail. They want to bullet, change font color, font size etc so a simple entry of text into a database won't work. Any Suggestions? ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330517 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page
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 a few years back getting lazy and using that to put my resume in an html format for my consulting company website and it produced a document that was several MB as it has so much crap in it. I ran the cleaner and it brought it down to the kb range. Eric -Original Message- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:h...@ilsweb.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:27 AM To: cf-talk Subject: 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 as HTML option that is included in the Word program. Most people would deride the HTML the program produces, in fact many tools, like Dreamweaver contain Word HTML Clean up functions, but it should work. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330521 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page
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 a few years back getting lazy and using that to put my resume in an html format for my consulting company website and it produced a document that was several MB as it has so much crap in it. I ran the cleaner and it brought it down to the kb range. Eric Dreamweaver hasn't been catching word 2007 formatting issues with smartquotes, odd things that happen with hyphans and also double spaces after periods... It's a straight pain ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330522 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page
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 problems. There needs to be some level of understanding to the limitations of Word to HTML. ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330526 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: user-generated rich text on coldfusion page
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 good job of only pasting the text and not all the extra word garbage... It also has a pretty good file manager plugin so your users can manage the pictures on the server... This will probably be your biggest hurdle - - your users will think they can cut and paste the graphics from Word into the Editor - and it may take a bit of education/hand holding to explain how it works. (They will also think they can upload pics directly from their digital camera and have them show up sized as well... But that is a different matter altogether.) - Nick ~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330528 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
