converting MS doc formatting to html that Flash can recognize

[Patrick]

I've got an MS world doc that has simple formatting in it (i.e. bold,
italic) that I want to bring into flash. My solution is:
a) save as html from word
b) load the html formatted text into flash
c) assign text to an html formatting enabled text field

My problem is that when MS word converts a word doc to html, it puts a lot
of tags in that confuse Flash. Has anyone found a method of converting a
word doc to html where it just uses the very basic tags that Flash employs?
For instance, I just want a <p> tag, but MS gives me something like this: <p
class=MsoNormal>. Flash doesn't know what to do with that.

The only solution I've found is to copy the raw text into Dreamweaver and
re-creating the formatting by hand. Dreamweaver doesn't add all the stuff,
just the basic <p><b><i> tags. While this method works, I've got a 50 page
doc, so it's going to take a while if I don't find a way to convert the
formatting in the word doc to something Flash will recognize.

Thank you

Patrick

[Steven Post]

I've had this kind of problem a lot. I usually cook up a little Perl
script and save it as a droplet on my desktop. That way I can just drop
folders full of MS-HTML crap on it and get nice, neat HTML out the back.

In article <Wiv7b.25168$Ad4.9949064@news3.news.adelphia.net >,
"Patrick" <patrickyoung@jetsetstudios.com> wrote:

>I've got an MS world doc that has simple formatting in it (i.e. bold,
>italic) that I want to bring into flash. My solution is:
>a) save as html from word
>b) load the html formatted text into flash
>c) assign text to an html formatting enabled text field
>
>My problem is that when MS word converts a word doc to html, it puts a lot
>of tags in that confuse Flash. Has anyone found a method of converting a
>word doc to html where it just uses the very basic tags that Flash employs?
>For instance, I just want a <p> tag, but MS gives me something like this: <p
>class=MsoNormal>. Flash doesn't know what to do with that.
>
>The only solution I've found is to copy the raw text into Dreamweaver and
>re-creating the formatting by hand. Dreamweaver doesn't add all the stuff,
>just the basic <p><b><i> tags. While this method works, I've got a 50 page
>doc, so it's going to take a while if I don't find a way to convert the
>formatting in the word doc to something Flash will recognize.
>
>Thank you
>
>Patrick
>
>

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[Martin Voegeli, vom]

> I've got an MS world doc that has simple formatting in it (i.e. bold,

> italic) that I want to bring into flash. My solution is:
> a) save as html from word
> b) load the html formatted text into flash
> c) assign text to an html formatting enabled text field
>
> My problem is that when MS word converts a word doc to html, it puts
> a lot of tags in that confuse Flash. Has anyone found a method of
> converting a word doc to html where it just uses the very basic tags
> that Flash employs?
> For instance, I just want a <p> tag, but MS gives me something like
> this: <p> class=MsoNormal>. Flash doesn't know what to do with that.
>
> The only solution I've found is to copy the raw text into
> Dreamweaver and re-creating the formatting by hand. Dreamweaver
> doesn't add all the stuff, just the basic <p><b><i> tags. While this
> method works, I've got a 50 page doc, so it's going to take a while
> if I don't find a way to convert the formatting in the word doc to
> something Flash will recognize. Thank you, Patrick

There are better ways with Dreamweaver:

1.) Create an empty HTML page.
2.) Import Word HTML: File > Import > Import Word HTML
3.) Stripe surplus HTML tags: Commands > Clean Up HTML/XHTML

-> There you can specify tags to be removed e.g. span and div...

Best wishes, Martin ;) * [url]http://birdy1976.com/[/url] * ICQ# 237743398

[Patrick]

The Dreamweaver conversion works well. Thank you.

My only problem now is troublesome special characters. Example: é comes out
as a square when I import into flasht html text.

Thanks again,

Patrick



"Martin Voegeli, vom" <MartinVoegeli@gmx.ch> wrote in message
news:3F5EB6D0.8837C85D@gmx.ch...

> > I've got an MS world doc that has simple formatting in it (i.e. bold,
> > italic) that I want to bring into flash. My solution is:
> > a) save as html from word
> > b) load the html formatted text into flash
> > c) assign text to an html formatting enabled text field
> >
> > My problem is that when MS word converts a word doc to html, it puts
> > a lot of tags in that confuse Flash. Has anyone found a method of
> > converting a word doc to html where it just uses the very basic tags
> > that Flash employs?
> > For instance, I just want a <p> tag, but MS gives me something like
> > this: <p> class=MsoNormal>. Flash doesn't know what to do with that.
> >
> > The only solution I've found is to copy the raw text into
> > Dreamweaver and re-creating the formatting by hand. Dreamweaver
> > doesn't add all the stuff, just the basic <p><b><i> tags. While this
> > method works, I've got a 50 page doc, so it's going to take a while
> > if I don't find a way to convert the formatting in the word doc to
> > something Flash will recognize. Thank you, Patrick

>
> There are better ways with Dreamweaver:
>
> 1.) Create an empty HTML page.
> 2.) Import Word HTML: File > Import > Import Word HTML
> 3.) Stripe surplus HTML tags: Commands > Clean Up HTML/XHTML
>
> -> There you can specify tags to be removed e.g. span and div...
>
> Best wishes, Martin ;) * [url]http://birdy1976.com/[/url] * ICQ# 237743398

[Steven Post]

I think you have to encode special characters, so like an é would be
&eacute;

If you don't know the codes, you can do a web search for HTML entities.
That should turn them up.

On the other hand, I seem to remember that this is not the right
solution for flash -- that you have to embed the complete font set, or
at least the characters you are using...

sp

In article <SmM7b.25284$Ad4.10059583@news3.news.adelphia.net> ,
"Patrick" <patrickyoung@jetsetstudios.com> wrote:

>The Dreamweaver conversion works well. Thank you.
>
>My only problem now is troublesome special characters. Example: é comes out
>as a square when I import into flasht html text.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Patrick
>
>
>
>"Martin Voegeli, vom" <MartinVoegeli@gmx.ch> wrote in message
>news:3F5EB6D0.8837C85D@gmx.ch...

>> > I've got an MS world doc that has simple formatting in it (i.e. bold,
>> > italic) that I want to bring into flash. My solution is:
>> > a) save as html from word
>> > b) load the html formatted text into flash
>> > c) assign text to an html formatting enabled text field
>> >
>> > My problem is that when MS word converts a word doc to html, it puts
>> > a lot of tags in that confuse Flash. Has anyone found a method of
>> > converting a word doc to html where it just uses the very basic tags
>> > that Flash employs?
>> > For instance, I just want a <p> tag, but MS gives me something like
>> > this: <p> class=MsoNormal>. Flash doesn't know what to do with that.
>> >
>> > The only solution I've found is to copy the raw text into
>> > Dreamweaver and re-creating the formatting by hand. Dreamweaver
>> > doesn't add all the stuff, just the basic <p><b><i> tags. While this
>> > method works, I've got a 50 page doc, so it's going to take a while
>> > if I don't find a way to convert the formatting in the word doc to
>> > something Flash will recognize. Thank you, Patrick

>>
>> There are better ways with Dreamweaver:
>>
>> 1.) Create an empty HTML page.
>> 2.) Import Word HTML: File > Import > Import Word HTML
>> 3.) Stripe surplus HTML tags: Commands > Clean Up HTML/XHTML
>>
>> -> There you can specify tags to be removed e.g. span and div...
>>
>> Best wishes, Martin ;) * [url]http://birdy1976.com/[/url] * ICQ# 237743398

>
>

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