RE: download metalink articles - save target as

Or Scribus, which just went to stable release. http://www.scribus.org.uk/

"emerge -v scribus" on Gentoo... :)

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen_at_wangtrading.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 3:35 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: 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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:50 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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