CMS query

[gnasher_44]

Hi
is there a way of copying and pasting large amounts of text from indesign or word into a CMS, the text is heavily formatted with supercript and italics etc. and would like to keep the re-formatting to a mimimum.

[Ray]

I usually paste into notepad and then copy it from there to the CMS to remove all the crap.

[heist]

port80's own nick cowie has a util you might find useful:

http://nickcowie.com/other/clean.html

[gnasher_44]

Originally Posted by Ray

I usually paste into notepad and then copy it from there to the CMS to remove all the crap.

I actually want to retain all the "crap"

print publications are being converted to web pages and due to the technical subject matter I need to keep all the formatting which mainly consists of italics and superscript No's - and lots of them.

on another note, where's the best place to buy Dreamweaver - not as a package, but purely Dreamweaver on it's own, without having to wait too long.

[jacobkball]

For buying Dreamweaver - I would imagine directly from the Adobe website would be the quickest method, seeing as you can download it directly.

http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

[nickobec]

Originally Posted by heist

port80's own nick cowie has a util you might find useful:

http://nickcowie.com/other/clean.html

It is not perfect it fails big time in ie8, if you are using FF, chrome or Safari you have to cut, paste, hit button, hit painful javascript button, cut and paste.

IE 6 or 7 cut from word, paste, hit button and paste

Designed to take the crap HTML word generates and clean it up into real HTML. Unfortunately that is what you get HTML, so as long as you paste raw HTML into your CMS it works like a charm.

Did a great job here, take a couple of hundred A4 pages and pasted into roughly the same number of CMS pages. Keeping links, italics and bold. Author did not use headings, so he had to add them in the CMS.

[webnothing]

Originally Posted by nickobec

It is not perfect it fails big time in ie8, if you are using FF, chrome or Safari you have to cut, paste, hit button, hit painful javascript button, cut and paste.

IE 6 or 7 cut from word, paste, hit button and paste

Designed to take the crap HTML word generates and clean it up into real HTML. Unfortunately that is what you get HTML, so as long as you paste raw HTML into your CMS it works like a charm.

Did a great job here, take a couple of hundred A4 pages and pasted into roughly the same number of CMS pages. Keeping links, italics and bold. Author did not use headings, so he had to add them in the CMS.

I have the exact same issue at the moment. I am contracted to build a website for a publishing company that has a magazine that they want online. I hinted to them that they should have pdf articles available for reading rather than a html equivalent. But I'm trying to get the html equivalent working also just to give them some more value.

They are exporting from Quark to pdf and I was hoping the Quark exporting for html were any good. But if not, then your converter is giving me some ideas just in case Quark generates invalid html.

[MicroedWebServices]

i usually use WYSIWYG in for my CMS and i can copy and paste as much stuff as i want in there and it keeps all the 'crap'. also if you get adobe contribute, you can use that to put all the wording into your pages.