On Thu, 11 May 2006, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>> So my question is how can one save what is open on a website say as a MS
>> Office .doc or OpenOffice OO file which is searchable, has the same
>> information, and does not take 10 minutes or so per page to do? [I am assume
>> of course that the website is something like HTML not something like Adobe
>> Acrobat.]
>
> If you're mainly concerned about the text of the document I'd suggest
> using wget or curl to pull the web page, then process the html to create a
> text document using links. I.e., wget URL; links -dump file.html >
> file.txt
Sometimes things in columns will get saved where
Col 1 line 1 Col 2 line 1
Col 1 line 2 Col 2 line 2
Col 1 line 3 Col 2 line 3
Col 1 line 4 Col 2 line 4
gets saved as
Col 1 line 1<tab>Col 2 line 1
Col 1 line 2<tab>Col 2 line 2
Col 1 line 3<tab>Col 2 line 3
Col 1 line 4<tab>Col 2 line 4
or worse as
Col 1 line 1
Col 2 line 1
Col 1 line 2
Col 2 line 2
Col 1 line 3
Col 2 line 3
Col 1 line 4
Col 2 line 4
when logically it should be
Col 1 line 1
Col 1 line 2
Col 1 line 3
Col 1 line 4
Col 2 line 1
Col 2 line 2
Col 2 line 3
Col 2 line 4
Insets are the same way.
Frames you have to be careful on -- be sure you have the URL of the frame
you want, not the URL of the document containing the frame. In Opera
forcing the appearance of the URL on e.g. shy popups is easy -- ^F8 -- but I
haven't found a way in FF.
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