On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:51, S0TL wrote:
> On Thursday 11 May 2006 12:01 pm, 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
>
> Is there a printer in Linux like ther is in Windows that will print to
> file?
>
CUPS does that standardly.
--Steve Szmidt
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