The day i spammed my own page, just to test xml-rpc and MS Word publishing

Thu, 10/29/2009 - 17:19 — Tom

This is a test where i use Microsoft Word to post to Drupal. β
Jay, it works!

Let us also do it with a picture:

Did it work? And bold, or italic, or both!

I have done a lot more testing. Press the "Read more" link to see it all.

A header

The only downer with this is that my beautiful image became horribly ugly and compressed. But what if I place it as a png image rather than the ugly jpeg? Nice! No compression, and for some reason the images suddenly get two different sizes. I blame Word.

Testing word-specific stuff:

Figures

Smart-art

Diagrams

Wordart

 
 

Conclusion: Word-specific stuff is converted to png-images without alpha-channels.

Image effects:

And this is seriously the cleanest html-code word have ever produced!

Categories: Technical

Comments

Fri, 10/30/2009 - 23:47 — Tom

Had to download a mod from

Had to download a mod from drupal's pages to make categories work with Word 2007.