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[Alan Elkner <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>