Exporting text - Format problems
Hi Folks, perhaps somone can point me in the right direction. I would like to export text from my website (I'm using Designer 7) and paste it into a WordPress blog.
The problem is this, after I copy the text I can't seem to paste correctly into WordPress....or anywhere else including a Word doc.. It loses all the text formatting and the links I have embedded are lost.
I suspect that I'm doing something wrong and how I paste the text to begin with in Web Designer 7.
Any ideas, suggestions?
My website is http://www.the247newsroom.com
Thanks
Tom Petner
Re: Exporting text - Format problems
Are you trying to copy the text from your page in a browser or directly from WD?
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Hi Covoxer, I'm trying to copy it directly from WD7. When I do that it just won't copy over. Then I tried copying it directly from my site (http://www.the247newsroom.com) and it copies over and the links are there, BUT the formatting is gone. It's just a continuous string of sentences.
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Unfortunatelly - to preserve integrity and allow to freely manipulate - Xara "chops" all text You write. It produces design where every line has it place - it's suited for "static" sites.
To "extract" text with links one should write a script to "glue" lines in paragraphs, and to "see" when paragraph ends. As in source:
Quote:
<span class="xr_tl xr_s14" style="top: 193px;">fall - said prosecutors confirmed she was never </span>
<span class="xr_tl xr_s14" style="top: 210px;">told of her right to remain silent or call a lawyer.”</span>
<span class="xr_tl xr_s14" style="top: 243px;">The hot debate in newsrooms and across the Web is whether <span class="xr_s17">to air</span> or <span class="xr_s17">not to </span></span>
first to lines are in one paragraph (210 - 193 = 17 px between them with text size) - and next line is new paragraph (243 - 210 = 33px)
Also remember text formating: so here - xr_s14 is "normal", xr_s17 is "italic" (in fact there should be <em> instead)
Not so semantic, as one can say - but it is always something for something.
One script will fit it - if all are formatted same way.
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Thanks for the reponse blekk, but I'm afraid you lost me back at 'unfortunately.' On a good day, I might consider myself a power user, but most days I'm far from an experience IT person who can 'write a script.' Among the confusion, I'm not sure what WD7 producing design for a 'static' site has to do with it?
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Try following.
Copy your text in WD and paste it to MS Word. Then copy the text in Word and paste into WordPress.
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thanks covoxer, I'll give that a ty.
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I just tried pasting from both WD7 and again off my website. In each case, all the text is copied, but itcomes out as a continuous stream of text without the individual line formatting and without the links.
And, as I may have mentioned, when I copied off my website and directly into WordPress, all there links and copy are there, but without the inidividual line breaks...it was again a continuous stream.
Any other ideas?
Does this have anything to do with the way text is posted initially into WD7?
Somewhere...I believe I spotted it here on the boards...some discussion about adding something and that 'something' I don't recall - to maintain the formatting.
As a side note, I had a guy complain to me that he tried to copy an article off my site and while all the text was there, it was the same situation - when he pasted the text into Word none of the original formatting was there.
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Have you tried to copy from WD to MS Word? This does preserve everything including formatting and links.
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When do You need this? Are You in hurry? If I find some free minutes I can do it for You - if you find no solution. But rather next week.
covoxer: I tried MS Word - not working.