Minor htmlText bug

[Mark Brownell]

On Wednesday, March 9, 2005, at 06:07 AM, Thomas McCarthy wrote:

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> Date: Wed,  9 Mar 2005 03:00:26 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Thomas McCarthy" <tominjapan at excite.com>
> Subject: Minor htmlText bug
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> I've noticed a minor bug with saving the htmltext property of a field.
> I'm using macrons (long marks over vowels--unicode characters) with 
> some text. I copy some text from a word processing program and then 
> paste the rtftext from the clipboard to a field. I then save the 
> htmltext of the field as a custom property to access later.
>
> The problem is this. I notice that the first few letters got all mixed 
> up (up to the first macron?)
>
> I tracked the problem down to this:
> The beginging of the htmlText should look like this:
> <p><font face="Arial" color="#FF0000">....
> BUT it was this:
> <p><font  color="#FF0000">....
>
> pasting the mising  'face="Arial"', fixed the problem. Anyone else 
> experience this? I'm going to be doing a lot of text this way and 
> would rather not have to fix it everytime.
>
> thanks
> tm

The trick I use is to make sure that the font face attribute that I 
want will be included is to paste the rtftext from the clipboard to a 
field that does not have the same font type as the result I would like 
included in the  font face attribute. Try picking a really minimally 
used font type for your  clipboard to a field procedure if you want to 
get most of the font face attributes included.

hth,

Mark