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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Brian Sutherland
<brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> 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