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We have a software product called Aurora, which is a content management system that clients use to keep their website updated. We use the open source JavaScript embedded FCKEditor to provide an intuitive interface to the HTML code. This works wicked.
We have clients on Windows. They copy and paste text from Word, PDF documents and other web sites. This works fine under Linux, but is borgensteined on some Windows installs. The clipboard rips out spacing and makes the text all nasty-formatted. Replacing the clipboard with some other crap shareware thing didn’t solve it.
Has anyone seen this before?
The problem we have is that it’s intermittent. Sometimes it works in Windows, sometimes it doesn’t. It always works for us.
Seriously, I’m thinking of making a custom Ubuntu LiveCD that loads Firefox and opens their website in Aurora.
I’ve been using FCKeditor at this new contract for their CMS system. I’ve seen the occasional problem here, with FCKeditor deciding to rewrite the HTML I paste into it. When I paste into Notepad/other things, the HTML is fine, so I think FCKeditor is doing it rather than the Clipboard. I’m using Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows 2000 on my machine, if that helps.
If you’re 100% sure it’s the clipboard, I’d look into the version of Office that’s been installed. Sometimes the multiple cut-paste thingy that gets installed with recent Office is a bit iffy… mine is sitting in the tray at the moment refusing to do anything.
It’s the clipboard. Pasting directly into notepad does the same thing…. replacing the clipboard with a third party app makes no difference either… pasting it into vi produces no funny characters, it’s already stripped of the spaces. Stupido!
well either that, or a suite of products designed for Windows are all screwed. Which isn’t such a far-fetched possibility.
So often just cutting and pasting stuff between programs in windows makes things messy. Like from word to outlook. Most of the time I cut and paste with no formatting so hopefully its close to the original and I dont have to mess around with the tabbing and wrapping.
Yeah it’s no good. The GNOME/X clipboards have been ridiculed in the past because they’re not the same (two different clipboards, long story) but atleast they don’t munge the copied item.
And yeah Hale, it’s the clipboard not FCK.
Ive copied and pasted from MS Word into Dreamweaver and its kept formatting, even sometimes brought in the shitty MSWord tags and code if i use default paste.
If just paste text as “text” in Dreamweaver its kept its formatting fine.
Guess it depends on what your pasting from and to, I believe I have come across the Word to Notepad formatting issue.
I wonder also if some formatting things like paragraph spacings and all that stuff thats been set into a word document actually causes it to “borgenstein” up when pasting into something else, I guess most of the client doc’s that i get sent are bog standard text no fancy stuff.
borgenstein - isnt this a German sausage? haha.
Not sure if this is still an issue, but Tony just sent me this:
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true
I haven’t tried it in FF yet, but looks like it works well in IE.