Re: WOText Conversion to HTML On The Fly
Re: WOText Conversion to HTML On The Fly
- Subject: Re: WOText Conversion to HTML On The Fly
- From: email@hidden (Anjo Krank)
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:08:14 +0200
- Xx-reply-to: email@hidden
Hi Jonathan,
Am Dienstag, 01.07.03 um 15:57 Uhr schrieb Jonathan Fleming:
all the above is spot-on, but this last paragraph... will the user be
able to use this method to copy a formated document say from a
word.doc or a .rtf document, paste it in and maintain the formatting
they applied? (probably not unless they made it html in the first
place - the very format the user does not understand.)
Are there any other ways around this problem. At the moment I am being
sent their formatted word documents by email for me to convert
manually because they don't know how to convert them or use the
converted saved as... files, and if they understand that much and can
view the source code they freeze at the sight of the source code
feeling it's all too technical.
I think I may have to go with a third party program that has all the
same sort of formating buttons on the text box input as the user might
be used to in a word processing program like Word.
Any ideas - unless there is a WO solution?
Now that you asked: if your users work with Windows, you could take a
look at the ERXDHTMLComponent in Project Wonder. It creates this
DHTMLEdit Control on Windows (overlaying a textbox if you're not on
Windows) and lets your users copy/paste from word with all the HTML
formatting intact...tables, styles and everything.
You might also be able to use a java control, but the copy/paste will
not preserve the HTML.
I've been revamping it lately to be more OO-like but still need to
submit the changes (probably in a week or so)
Of course, there are tons of other ways to do this, for example, upload
an .RTF, change it to HTML and then use a java control, for example.
And, now that WebKit is available, I've even thought of creating some
simple Safari-Plugin with much of this functionality.
Cheers, Anjo
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