Re: [Evolution] Copy/paste in new message corrupts formatting

[Ruchir Brahmbhatt <ruchir brahmbhatt ecosmob com>]

Hi,

Thank you for your prompt response. Your comments make sense but any idea why it disrupts the incoming message formatting as well? The received message should be seen exactly as it was sent with same formatting, shouldn't it?
If we receive mail having table, borders are gone even if sender sent table with borders. If we want to write something in the table while replying then we have to set the table border manually. And sometimes it doesn't even recognize as a table and hence we can't do any table formatting. 

Can anyone guide me how to improve html and rich text formatting support in evolution?

Thanks,
Ruchir Brahmbhatt
Director
Ecosmob Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
To: ruchir brahmbhatt ecosmob com
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Copy/paste in new message corrupts formatting
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:59:28 -0430

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 17:07 +0530, Ruchir Brahmbhatt wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> The original formatting is lost when we copy and paste some content
> from HTML webpage, word document or spreadsheet. For example if we
> copy a table from spreadsheet and paste it in message body, then it
> preserves background and fonts but table border is lost. I have all
> html options enabled. Can anyone guide me what we can do to fix this
> issue?

I doubt the Evo developers consider it an issue. Making Evo understand
every kind of document out there and obey its formatting rules is
something way beyond its spec. This kind of thing works (up to a point)
in Windows, because of the underlying OLE model, but there's nothing
comparable in the Unix/Linux world.

The way to pass random documents around is via attachments.

poc