How do I implement an e-mail like text area input? Where the users can upload images, format text, etc.
Like when you ask a question here, it gives you option to format text, input HTML or add images.
You will probably want to use one of the many freely available WYSIWYG editors.
A couple of the more popular ones are:
CKEditor: http://ckeditor.com/
TinyMCE: http://www.tinymce.com/
You can explore alternatives using AlternativeTo.
If your users are more technical, they may prefer a Markdown syntax.
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I have a word document file which is a form.
I try to complete it. Here is a screenshot of how it is looks like
When I type in the grey box there is a limitation in length and when I reach it, it won't let me type more.
I am not sure of what it is, however I want to insert an image or a table but I can't.
How can I make it?
The field you are trying to enter information into is a Legacy Text Form Field in Word 2010. In order to have a data entry area within the form that will accept text, tables, and images, delete this field and replace it with a Rich Text Content Control. This control is found on Word's Developer Tab:
Instructions for Displaying Word Developer Tab (if needed)
Like the legacy form fields, content controls allow manual or programmatic entry of data as well the ability to restrict editing of the data within the content control. Gregory K. Maxey has posted an incredibly detailed tutorial on creating forms with content controls, programming the content entry via VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and restricting editing of the control's contents (all of which is available using the Rich Text Content Control):
Create Forms with Content Controls by Gregory K. Maxey
The same author also has an additional posting on content controls where he provides links to and offers explanations of more advanced content control abilities such as data mapping:
Content Controls (Additional Information) by Gregory K. Maxey
Lastly, Microsoft also provides some guidance on programming content controls via .NET (which I think may be beyond the scope of your question, but which I include for future readers):
MSDN: How to Add Content Controls to Word Documents
I'm developing a CMS, and I'm trying to figure out which rich text editor (if any) I want to use.
The content is stored in a structured form on the server. Let's call it the "canonical form". It is not a simple HTML or markdown page, but a multi-part structure where each part is stored as individual records in the database.
The server reads the canonical form and sends it to the client. The client transforms the canonical form into HTML. I now want to let the user edit the content, and save it back to the server in canonical form.
I'm not sure a rich text editor will do the trick. It seems most RTE's give you HTML, leaving it up to you to parse the HTML and save it. The problem is that the conversion of canonical to HTML is one-way. The canonical form is different enough from HTML that the transformation can't be readily reversed.
So I need some kind of intimate interaction with the editor. I need to track all the things the editor does (select, copy, paste, drag-n-drop, splitting blocks, merging blocks, etc.) as the editor is doing it, so that I can maintain the canonical form in parallel with the displayed HTML.
Is there anything out there that will do this? I'm looking at TinyMCE, CKEditor, etc.
It sounds like you're probably going to need logic that converts content into canonical form on an editor get operation, and the inverse on an editor set operation.
Textbox.io supports the idea of filters for content. You could possibly tie this in with something like Markdown-js to get your canonical format.
I work for a publisher and am trying to extract content from our fully laid out PDFs. I've tried pdftohtml, pdftotext, pdfminer, and other Python-based approaches to getting the content, as well as saving to Word, HTML, XML, etc. from the original Acrobat files.
I don't need just the text, I also need the text formatting. That's because, for example, I need all the blue text in the document.
When I save to HTML, Word, etc. from Acrobat, the resulting files contain screenshots of the pages, not the laid out text. When I extract text using different Python modules I get the text but lose the text formatting.
The only solution I've found is to manually copy and paste from the PDF into a word doc, then saving as HTML. I'm hoping to automate this.
Why does copying from Acrobat into Word achieve what I can't do by other means? Has anybody come across this problem before?
Maybe you can consider another method. The software (https://pdfapi.codeplex.com/) can convert pdf files to html directly via MVS. If you are able to use the MVS, i think the software i mentioned above is useful for you to convert the text in pdf files to html that can keep the format perfectly. Of course, it's just a referral, you can have a try.
I am developing a web app that sends out emails. Currently, all emails have a HTML part.
Questions:
Is it important to include a text part also?
Do you include both?
Is just removing all the tags from the HTML message and adding a few line breaks good enough to create a text part from the HTML part?
Thanks, Kevin
Is it Important to include a text part also? It's a best practice to provide a plain text version of the email. However, in my opinion and in this day and age, I would guess that it is not such a big deal to leave it out. However, if you know more about your recipients' email clients (eg: if you're sending the emails in a corporate environment and everyone uses a particular email client), then you can determine how necessary it really is.
Do you include both? The .net framework (which I use) provides an AlternateView class (MSDN) that allows you to easily specify copies of an email in different formats. It makes things very easy to include a plain text version of the email. Perhaps you can find something similar in apache/php.
Is just removing all the tags from the HTML message and adding a few line breaks good enough to create a text part from the HTML part? Technically, yes but be VERY CAREFUL here. A complex HTML layout that has been converted to plain text will look absolutely terrible if all you do is remove HTML tags and pile the content together. It really depends on your content and how much you can do to manipulate said content. Also, take a look at Campaign Monitor'ssuggestions for formatting plain text emails.
One final word of advice for you HTML emails to test, test, and then test some more. When you're finished testing, test again. HTML emails will render differently in different email clients and, if some of your recipients are using Microsoft Word 2007/2010 then you can forget about web standards. I urge you to take a look at Campaign Monitor's Guide to CSS support in email.
We have a textbox where users will be entering reviews. They should be able to do simple formatting things like bold, italics, lists, headers, etc... Our problem is that the majority of our users will most likely create their reviews in MS Word then copy/paste the text to our form. As you know, this can (and mostly will) cause problems when displaying the data. What is the best way to provide the simple formatting functionality without having problems when they copy/paste from Word?
The best solution would be some type of filter that takes text from Word and strips out everything unneeded or illegal.
You could write an add-in that exposes a single button with the text "Copy for Review". Your add-in would do all the cleanup that you'd want.