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[Justas Sadzevicius <justas@xxxxxx>]

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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 <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
>>
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