Seam-PDF Unable to Render Rich Text Copied from MS Office Products

[aimee]

Our web app makes extensive use of the rich:editor component. Our end users paste text that they've copied from Office, Outlook, Excel, web pages, PDFs, etc., into those editors. The web app then generates a PDF of the data.

Issue:
p:text renders all of the data, including the embedded markup tags
p:text does not support escaping the markup tags

We tried using h:outputText (setting escape to false) surrounded by p:html tags, but then no data is rendered in the PDF. Same thing if we use s:formattedText

If the end user types into the rich:editor and uses the formatting buttons made available by the rich:editor to bold, bullet list, etc., seam-pdf renders the data just fine as long as we use h:outputText and set escape to false.

<h:outputText escape="false" value="#{data}" />

Is Seam PDF able to render complex rich text? Do we have to use iText libraries and write code in a bean to generate the PDF? Or do we have to abandon Seam PDF and iText altogether in favor of something else?

Thanks in advance!

Example:
User copied this from an email into a rich:editor text box:

From: Smith, Bob 
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 5:55 AM
To: Doe, Jane P (ATTSI)
Subject: FW: make number a hot link

This link should work http://fakeUrl.com/app/pdf/pdfRequestAll.seam?requestId=400086&bypass=true I removed the cid field. 

This is what is stored in the database and unable to be rendered as user-friendly text by seam-pdf:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><strong><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sansserif&
quot;;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> Smith, Bob <br
/><strong>Sent:</strong> Thursday, January 06, 2011 5:55 AM<br /><strong>To:</strong>
Doe, Jane P (ATTSI)<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> FW: make number a
hot link</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"> </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><span
style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;">This link should work </span><a
href="http://fakeUrl.com/app/pdf/pdfRequestAll.seam?requestId=400086&amp;bypass
=true"><span style="font-size: small; font-family:
Calibri;">http://exceptions.att.com/TsseJ/pdf/pdfRequestAll.seam?requestId=400086&amp;byp
ass=true</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> I
removed the cid field.  </span></span></span></p>
</span></p>

[vypni]

Have solved this problem?

Have you tried

<p:html />

?

[ginni]

I have the same issue. I have used the p:html tag and it does not work if the users paste the formatted text into the editor and then try to generate the PDF. Did you find a resolution to this?

Thanks!