Hi,

If you guys are like me, you often save a web page for off-line viewing or archiving purposes. I also often print out a web page for leisure reading, but more often than I wish, the printout is clipped (firefox is a big culprit here) or the output is not as good as it could be.

I knew I could open URL's via Gnome's gEdit text editor (File | Open Location). So I thought to myself - I wonder if OpenOffice Writer could do the same. What a welcome surprise, it can! "File | Open | and enter the URL | click Open". Wait a few seconds and the web page with images will appear in OpenOffice Writer. Now I can save it as a single ODT file, delete unwanted ads and do minor formatting before I print. :-)

Now I wish Firefox had an extension to save as OpenDocument Text (odt), but using OpenOffice directly works just as well. One limitation though, is that OpenOffice Writer doesn't support opening a webpage that contains frames.

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:

I'd suggest considering using the unMHT extension which can write and open .mht files with firefox: http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html

Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML) you can find information about the MHtml format.

Anyway I don't know if the new Openoffice 3 can open and render .mht files...

I use it everyday to save pages I need to store for offline reading.

If I need to save a group of pages (i.e. from the index of a manual) I find very useful wget on the command line.

bye

tiziano de togni wrote

I'd suggest considering using the unMHT extension which can write and open .mht files with firefox: http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html

Thanks. I do know about unMHT, but my issue with it is that it doesn't come standard with Firefox. On all my systems (Ubuntu Linux), Firefox and OpenOffice are standard apps always available.

There is another Firefox extension called MAF (Mozilla Archive Format), but that seems to have stopped progressing and apparently only works on Windows.

Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML) you can find information about the MHtml format.

I never knew it was an official format, I thought it was just something Microsoft hacked together - doing the same as email content with MIME attachments.

If I need to save a group of pages (i.e. from the index of a manual) I find very useful wget on the command line.

I use wget as well for multiple pages, but for single pages, I wanted content and images in a single file. Otherwise I could have used the standard Firefox "File | Save As | and select Complete page". Up to know I have been using the latter, but Firefox printing support still has a lot to be desired, whereas OpenOffice prints perfectly.

Regards,
- Graeme -

_______________________________________________
fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/