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- traut
Is there anything out there that can keep content that has been formatted in Word when I put the content through dreamweaver or a wordpress editor ? I work at a weekly paper and we edit all articles in Word and import into quark, we are building a new site but currently we have to spend hours reformatting the articles once we get them into the wordpress editor... is there anything out there i cant seem to find anything... thx in advance.
- gabriel20
paste it into dreamweaver in design view? Dreamweaver 8 handles Word documents surprisingly well.
- ********0
correct.
- traut0
its still seems to take out all of my word formatting.... bolds / italics etc.
- ********0
What version of DW is it?
It should paste with formatting. Try "Paste Special".Either way, perhaps you should implement a professional system that doesn't use Word.
- mg330
Uh, I'm pretty sure using Word to format content for the web is a disaster. Unless DW has a mechanism to strip all the horrible code and extra crap out of it, I'd reconsider exactly how you're importing the content.
I deal with plenty of Word formatted documents from our attorneys that either goes through InDesign for layout and PDF creation, or it goes straight into the CMS for our web site.
Either way, it goes through notepad 100% of the time when going to the web site. Sure, I have to reformat it, but I'm assured that the final version is exactly as I intend it for the web.
- myobie0
i worked at a paper that did things this way, is it prestige?
either way, the guys i worked with wrote a php processor to strip the quark tags out of the text and convert them into viable html...
it was a big undertaking...
but it worked pretty well
the system spit out a lot of xml and we cached the result html
i wrote the part that checks to see which xml files have changed and triggers a re caching
- traut0
MYOBIE so is it available for download anywhere or did the company keep it ?
- mrdobolina0
I work for a number of newspapers and we use txt files, Word is a nightmare with our CMS.
Our columnists send in all sorts of wild shit. WHo the fuck uses Word Perfect?
Also, If you are over the age of 12, please do not indent every paragraph, douchewater.
- spk0
an oldie but a goodie here:
http://www.textism.com/wordclean…
i am suprised no one has taken this to the next level... it could be a little business in itself - webapp...?
- ********0
sounds like you need a swarm of interns.....f the software....interns, interns, interns....
- gabriel20
DW 8 does a great job with Word document formatting. I've only noticed some issues with more complex Word tables and stuff.