Modifying the Source Types Used for Copy and Paste
In addition to disabling copy and paste, you can also control the clipboard formats Arbortext Editor uses to convert the copied content to markup. Following are some reasons you might want to control the clipboard formats:
• Adobe FrameMaker puts both MIF and RTF content on the clipboard during a copy operation. You might want to remove the MIF format so that RTF is used for converted markup.
• Many applications put both HTML and RTF content on the clipboard during a copy operation. You might want to disable one or the other of these formats for a particular application because you get better results from a specific format.
• You might want to disable all of the formats except for text, but still enable users to use > and the Paste Special dialog box to provide some control over the results of a paste operation.
Follow these steps to control the source types used for copy and paste:
1. In Arbortext Editor. select > .
The Preferences dialog box opens.
2. Click the Advanced button.
The Advanced Preferences dialog box opens.
3. Select the pastesource preference and click the Edit button.
4. Set the content in the Value field to the clipboard format(s) you want to use and click OK.
The following values are supported:
◦ mif — Maker Interchange Format (MIF), the document format supported by Adobe FrameMaker
◦ rtf — Rich Text Format (RTF), the document format used by several Microsoft applications including Microsoft Word
◦ txt — Unicode and 8-bit ANSI text
Multiple values must be separated by semnicolons (;).
5. Click Close to close the Advanced Preferences dialog box and OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
Note that you can also use the set pastesource command to set the clipboard formats supported for copy and paste.
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