[Zope] ExternalEditor and M$ Word setup?

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Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:04:26 -0500


Anyone know of any Zope job boards (as opposed to searching Monster for
Zope, etc)

Thanx in advance.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Johan Carlsson [EasyPublisher]" <johanc@easypublisher.com>
To: "Jean Jordaan" <jean@upfrontsystems.co.za>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] ExternalEditor and M$ Word setup?


At 14:28 2002-10-28 +0200, Jean Jordaan said:
>Hi Casey & lists
>
>We aim to use ExternalEditor as the crux of our CMF for end-users.
>When logged in to Plone, the ExternalEditor icon shows up with the
>user's content. Which strikes me as very, very cool.
>
>It works fine for plaintext content, but it will have to work with
>Microsoft Word (and/or OpenOffice). Currently, when I try this, Word
>tells me that it doesn't have an importer for this type of content
>(though it is a plain .doc file I'm editing), and opens the file as
>unconverted gunk with some recognizable text here and there. I'm
>guessing that this may be thanks to ExternalEditor's tempfile name.

It might depend on Word version. I use Word97.


>Does anyone have a ZopeEdit.ini that works with Word?

It's attached. (Might become filtered out on zope@zope.org?)

Johan Carlsson



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