Adam,

 

Thanks for the response. I am trying to understand this issue, and honestly it feels like the behavor is a little buggy and defies a concise explination. I see there are others struggling to understand this special characters issue as well.

 

When I fire the postback code here (hit the save changes button), the special character is either completely stripped out of the HTML by cute, or the characters are substituted for something else as described above. The behavior seems to be different depending on the font used (i.e standard vs. webdings).

 

Here's the code:

 

<script language="VB" runat="server">

 Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        If Page.IsPostBack Then
     
      Dim strSaveFilename as String
      Dim strPersonal as String
      'Dim strDate As Date
      'strDate = Today
      strSaveFilename = txtFileName.Text
      Session("ShortUploadedFileName") = strSaveFilename
      strPersonal = Session("UserID")
      'strSaveFileName = strSaveFileName + strDate
               
    Editor1.SaveFile("../Templates/" + strSaveFileName) ' + strPersonal)
    Session("SaveFileName") = strSaveFileName ' + strPersonal
    
    MakePDF()
    UpdateDatabase()
    
  Else       
            'Put user code to initialize the page here
   txtFileName.Text = Session("DocumentName")
   Dim DocURL as String
   DocURL = "../Templates/" & Session("DocumentName")
            Editor1.LoadHtml(DocURL)      
        End If 
               
        
    End Sub
 
 Sub MakePDF()
 
  'ActivePDF Code Here
       
    Dim strDirectory As String
    Dim strFileName As String
    Dim strSaveFilename as String
    strSaveFilename = txtFileName.Text
   
     strDirectory = "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Templates"
     'strFileName = "HomestarPDFtest.pdf"
     strFileName = strSaveFileName + ".pdf" 'strPersonal + ".pdf"
     Session("NewPDF") = strFileName
     Session("PDFforFTP") = strDirectory + "\" + strFileName
     
    'Instatiate the Server object.
    Dim SVR As APServerNET.APServer
    SVR = New APServer
   
    'Instatiate the WebGrabber object.
    Dim WG As APWebGrbNET.APWebGrabber
    WG = New APWebGrabber
   
    ' Various settings
    Dim intTimeout As Integer = 30
    Dim strIP As String = "127.0.0.1"
    Dim strPort As String = "64320"
   
    ' Set Server properties
    SVR.OutputDirectory = strDirectory
    SVR.NewDocumentName = strFileName
    SVR.PDFTimeout = intTimeout
    SVR.PrintResolution = 600
    'SVR.PaperLength = 1008
    SVR.PaperSize = 5
 
    ' Set WebGrabber properties
    Dim InputURL As String
    InputURL = "file://c:/inetpub/wwwroot/templates/" + Session("SaveFileName")
    WG.URL = InputURL
    WG.EngineToUse = 1
    WG.Timeout = intTimeout
    WG.PrinterTimeout = intTimeout
   
    ' Must call before DoPrint to pass server settings to WG
    WG.Prt2DiskSettings = SVR.ToString()
   
    ' Start the conversion process
    Dim rtnDoPrint As Long = WG.DoPrint(strIP, strPort)
    If rtnDoPrint = 0 Then
     ' Wait for conversion result
     Dim rtnWait As String = WG.Wait(strIP, strPort, intTimeout, "")
     If rtnWait = "019" Then
      ' Wait is successfull
      lblStatus.Text = "Done!"
   
      ' Run WG CleanUp
      WG.CleanUp(strIP, strPort)
     Else
      ' Wait fails
      lblStatus.Text = "Wait Failed: " & rtnWait
      Exit Sub
      
     End If
    Else
     ' DoPrint fails
     lblStatus.Text = "DoPrint Failed: " & rtnDoPrint
     
    End If
   
    ' Clear Objects
    WG = Nothing
    SVR = Nothing
    
 End Sub

 Sub UpdateDatabase()
 
  Dim strUserType as String
  Dim dteCreationDate as Date
  Dim dteLastProductionDate as Date
  Dim strOwner as String
  Dim strImageID as String
  
  strUserType = "User"
  dteCreationDate = "1/11/1969"
  dteLastProductionDate = "1/11/2006"
  strOwner = "Roger Eddy"
  strImageID = "ThisWontWork"
   
  Dim mySQL As String = "INSERT INTO Documents (DocumentName, DocumentType, CreationDate, LastProductionDate, Owner, ImageID) Values('"
  mySQL = mySQL & Session("DocumentName") & "','" & strUserType & "','" & dteCreationDate & "','" & dteLastProductionDate & "','" & strOwner & "','" & strImageID & "')"
  Dim myCon As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection (ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("DSN_dev"))
  Dim myCmd as SQLCommand = New SQLCommand(mySQL, myCon)
    
  Try
            myCon.Open()
            myCmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
   myCon.Close()
     
        Catch SQLexc As SqlException
            response.Write("Error while accessing Database.  Bad programmer, No Donut!  Error is " & SQLexc.ToString())
   lblStatus.Text = "Error is " & SQLexc.ToString()
   exit sub
        End Try
  
  Response.Redirect("Http://www.matrixworkflow.com/DP/CheckPDFOutput.aspx")
 
 End Sub

</script>

 

 

And

 

 

<CE:Editor id="Editor1" Width="860" Height="750" DisableItemList="Save" DisableAutoFormatting="True" EditCompleteDocument="true" AllowPasteHtml="false" UseRelativeLinks="false" RemoveServerNamesFromUrl="false" ThemeType="Office2003_BlueTheme" AutoParseClasses="false" runat="server" ></CE:Editor>

 

I am using the .NET 1.1 implementation.

 

 

In the example you site above, are you doing a

 

Editor1.SaveFile("../Templates/" + strSaveFileName) ' + strPersonal)

 

or similar? This call is where the HTML is being changed.

 

Any help would be appreciated, I am driving my users bonky trying to get this to work.

 

Thanks in advance.