Hi --
Just wondering about the status of HTML clipboard support. This seems like a fairly easy thing to implement and with HTML kind of the Internet lingua franca and all... In any case, not having it has forced me to use workarounds which are not ideal.
Tom
HTML Clipboard Format
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Re: HTML Clipboard Format
Hi Tom,
What exactly are you looking for? Pasting HTML from the Windows clipboard to Help & Manual already gives you formatted text...
What exactly are you looking for? Pasting HTML from the Windows clipboard to Help & Manual already gives you formatted text...
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Re: HTML Clipboard Format
I think release 6.5.2 included a great leap forward in pasting HTML, especially links. You might want to check that you are on the latest (currently 6.5.5) release.Tom Davis wrote:...wondering about the status of HTML clipboard support...not having it has forced me to use workarounds
For my purposes the pasted result is now too faithful to the original, in that it bring across unwanted formatting including font names and sizes that don't work with my layout. That is, it currently behaves like the 'Keep Source Formatting' command when pasting into Word and Outlook. In most situations I'd prefer to paste only the style and link markup, similar to Microsoft's 'Merge Formatting' command. Could I add that option to the wish list, please?
Re: HTML Clipboard Format
For me images frequently don't paste properly. To see an example:
1. Go to this web page: http://whyfiles.org/2015/eight-ways-mic ... u-healthy/
2. Copy the first paragraph which includes 2 images.
3. Paste into Help & Manual.
This snippet pastes into Word just fine. I encounter similar image problems on copy/paste from an HTML file with images that has been saved to a local disk (where the images are also stored locally). I can send you a sample file to work with if you like.
1. Go to this web page: http://whyfiles.org/2015/eight-ways-mic ... u-healthy/
2. Copy the first paragraph which includes 2 images.
3. Paste into Help & Manual.
This snippet pastes into Word just fine. I encounter similar image problems on copy/paste from an HTML file with images that has been saved to a local disk (where the images are also stored locally). I can send you a sample file to work with if you like.
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Re: HTML Clipboard Format
I'll leave that one to Tim! Interestingly there are different results copying from Chrome 41.0.2272.101 vs Firefox Nightly vs IE11.
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Re: HTML Clipboard Format
Hi Tom,
What's happening there is that those "images" are really image toggles, with links to JavaScript to display the actual images in a lightbox overlay. If you click on them you'll see this. The links are images, and those aren't being imported. I'll see if this can be improved, but this may not have very high priority at the moment...
What's happening there is that those "images" are really image toggles, with links to JavaScript to display the actual images in a lightbox overlay. If you click on them you'll see this. The links are images, and those aren't being imported. I'll see if this can be improved, but this may not have very high priority at the moment...
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Re: HTML Clipboard Format
That was an overly complicated example, my bad.
The text and image from the HTML file below (stored on disk locally) does not paste correctly either:
Note that to test this you must store an image named Test.jpg in a folder named Test GFX and this folder and the HTML file must reside in the same folder.
It might be easier for me to send you a ZIP with all of the files - just let me know where to send it.
Thanks,
Tom
The text and image from the HTML file below (stored on disk locally) does not paste correctly either:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META content=IE=5 http-equiv=x-ua-compatible>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 11.00.9600.17690">
<META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Here is an image:<BR><BR>
<img style="BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px" alt="" src="Test
GFX/Test.jpg">
</BODY>
</HTML>It might be easier for me to send you a ZIP with all of the files - just let me know where to send it.
Thanks,
Tom
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Re: HTML Clipboard Format
Hi Tom,
I have good news for you: Our software engineers have already looked at this since we conversed yesterday and they're going to implement significant improvements for this in Help & Manual 7, coming later this year. Among other things, this will then automatically copy in image links from the image source URLs found in the copied text.
I have good news for you: Our software engineers have already looked at this since we conversed yesterday and they're going to implement significant improvements for this in Help & Manual 7, coming later this year. Among other things, this will then automatically copy in image links from the image source URLs found in the copied text.
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Ah, that's good news for someone creating a help file later this year, but for me it means for each of the hundreds of HTML snippets I have I must copy and paste each one into Microsoft Word (which always gets it right) and then copy and paste into Help & Manual. I would think at least with regard to the simple HTML sample I posted that this would fall into the quick fix category.
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Re: HTML Clipboard Format
Hi Tom,
Which H&M output format are you using? If it is WebHelp or CHM don't forget the option to insert HTML directly into your topics. - Insert HTML Code Object. No need to go into Microsoft Word, just view and copy the selection source. You can also use #MERGE to pull in entire .html files.
Martin.
Which H&M output format are you using? If it is WebHelp or CHM don't forget the option to insert HTML directly into your topics. - Insert HTML Code Object. No need to go into Microsoft Word, just view and copy the selection source. You can also use #MERGE to pull in entire .html files.
Martin.