I feel a bit foolish about posting this, but a client has me stumped. I've googled, and consulted with other local developers to see if they've had similar experiences or have heard any anectodes with no luck.
My Client has a tried on a number of different machines to copy content from word and excel. Somehow, when they paste into the WYSIWYG editor it's pasted as an inline PNG. I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour on any of my machines here -- yet the client seems to be unable to do anything but. I believe they are using the Word popup button to do their pasting.
Is this a "stupid" on my part? Is there a setting in CKEditor that I can turn off that I haven't found ? It's being used on a drupal site but I can't imagine that that's relevant. I believe that we're using version 3.3.1 of CKEditor. If anybody had any suggestions or even a place to start on how to turn off this behaviour I'd be very grateful.
Many thanks,
Tim.
My Client has a tried on a number of different machines to copy content from word and excel. Somehow, when they paste into the WYSIWYG editor it's pasted as an inline PNG. I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour on any of my machines here -- yet the client seems to be unable to do anything but. I believe they are using the Word popup button to do their pasting.
Is this a "stupid" on my part? Is there a setting in CKEditor that I can turn off that I haven't found ? It's being used on a drupal site but I can't imagine that that's relevant. I believe that we're using version 3.3.1 of CKEditor. If anybody had any suggestions or even a place to start on how to turn off this behaviour I'd be very grateful.
Many thanks,
Tim.
Re: Pasting from Excel and Word results in INLINE PNG
From what I have found in internet it seems like a Word and Mac OS problem:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue ... l?id=84861
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/g ... cc5e&hl=en
http://indesignsecrets.com/when-pasting ... design.php
This issue is not related to CKEditor itself.
Perhaps one of those links will give your client a way to workaround this issue.
From what I have seen - update to Chromium 14, pasting text formatted as plain text might help.