RE: download metalink articles - save target as

There is hard to find and very expensive software called "OpenOffice", which, in version 1.1, allows you to read a HTML file and export it to PDF. The whole procedure takes about 5 minutes. For those of us who don't have luxury of using MS-Word and MS-Office in general, OpenOffice is a gift from God McNeally.

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:44, Faan DeSwardt wrote:
> The way I do it is to print the articles to a .PDF converter like Win2PDF (http://www.win2pdf.com/download/download.htm) that installs a printer driver to which you can print anything you could have printed to a regular printer. The free version has a popup dialog but given the usefulness, is a small price to pay for the convenience.
>
> This way you get it in a format that is platform independent but maintains the formatting and layout. An additional benefit is that you get the complete URL in the footer which you can easily copy+paste into a browser to get the latest update of the article on the web.
>
> I use this Web=>PDF technique on most articles I find on the web, especially the ones with nice charts and graphics, as saving them to disk sometimes do not include all those pretty pictures...:-)
>
> -f
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>
> The grueling method is...
>
> grab the header, copy paste it into notepad.exe. That strips the weird
> formatting out of it.
>
> Grab the body text, but not all the way down, try to guess where the
> body
> text frame ends and stop just before that. It may take a few tries to
> find
> exactly where.
>
> copy paste into Wordpad.exe.
>
>
> Hehehe.. amazing what we have to go through. An easier method I use it
> to view source - then chop out any erroneous html and "save as"
> mydoc.html
> Then you can view the html and copy out nicely...
>
> That's my workaround
> bob
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