[OT?] Printing HTML "pages"

[Everett M. Greene]

Is there a "tool" that allows selective printing of Web
pages? I recently found a page of interest and wanted to
print a portion of it. Unfortunately, under Firefox, the
user doesn't have any control over the portion to print.
[Luckily, my printer was off-line when I told it to print;
I later noted that there were 85 pages which I'd told the
browser to print the page.]

I tried saving the "page" to a file and I see to have
gotten only the portion in which I'm interested. When I
go to look at it with the common Windows editors, I get
a paraphrased rendition of the page's content. Is there
a way to get one of the editors to print the page in a
reasonable approximation of the HTML directions?

I went back and had Firefox open the file, but it just
dumps the text to the screen without any attempt to
format it per the HTML directions. This appears to be
due to the HTML header being missing from the file, so
Firefox is treating the file as plain text.

[Joe Makowiec]

On 11 Apr 2006 in soc.genealogy.computing, Everett M. Greene wrote:

Is there a "tool" that allows selective printing of Web
pages? I recently found a page of interest and wanted to
print a portion of it. Unfortunately, under Firefox, the
user doesn't have any control over the portion to print.
[Luckily, my printer was off-line when I told it to print;
I later noted that there were 85 pages which I'd told the
browser to print the page.]

File>Print Preview; find the text you're interested in; in the Print
dialog, 'Print range' Pages [startpage] to [endpage], at least in the
Windows version of FF.

I tried saving the "page" to a file and I see to have
gotten only the portion in which I'm interested. When I
go to look at it with the common Windows editors, I get
a paraphrased rendition of the page's content. Is there
a way to get one of the editors to print the page in a
reasonable approximation of the HTML directions?

Firefox will save most elements of an HTML file; the HTML file goes in
whatever directory you point at. It also creates a folder of the extra
files (external CSS, external Javascript), but will on occasion miss a
file if it's called too deeply, or called by javascript.

I went back and had Firefox open the file, but it just
dumps the text to the screen without any attempt to
format it per the HTML directions. This appears to be
due to the HTML header being missing from the file, so
Firefox is treating the file as plain text.

Why not highlight/copy/paste?

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[john]

Everett M. Greene wrote:

Is there a "tool" that allows selective printing of Web
pages? I recently found a page of interest and wanted to
print a portion of it. Unfortunately, under Firefox, the
user doesn't have any control over the portion to print.
[Luckily, my printer was off-line when I told it to print;
I later noted that there were 85 pages which I'd told the
browser to print the page.]

I tried saving the "page" to a file and I see to have
gotten only the portion in which I'm interested. When I
go to look at it with the common Windows editors, I get
a paraphrased rendition of the page's content. Is there
a way to get one of the editors to print the page in a
reasonable approximation of the HTML directions?

I went back and had Firefox open the file, but it just
dumps the text to the screen without any attempt to
format it per the HTML directions. This appears to be
due to the HTML header being missing from the file, so
Firefox is treating the file as plain text.

You could print the page(s) to a PDF printer e.g. PDFCreator and then
just select which pages you want to print to hardcopy in Adobe Acrobat
or similar.

[Peter]

Joe Makowiec wrote:

File>Print Preview; find the text you're interested in; in the Print
dialog, 'Print range' Pages [startpage] to [endpage], at least in the
Windows version of FF.

The same functionality is available in the Linux version of Firefox.

I tried saving the "page" to a file and I see to have
gotten only the portion in which I'm interested.

When you use File > Save As there are options about what you want to save.
You can select html only, complete page, text only, etc.


HTH

Peter

[Robert G. Eldridge]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:39:33 PST, [email protected] (Everett M.
Greene) wrote:

Is there a "tool" that allows selective printing of Web
pages? I recently found a page of interest and wanted to
print a portion of it. Unfortunately, under Firefox, the
user doesn't have any control over the portion to print.

In my Windows copy of Firefox I can select part of a Web page and then
select the option "Selection" in the Print range section of the Print
window to just print the selected content.

Alternatively you can always print preview the Web page and just print
the relevant page using the Pages from: to: option in the Print range
section of the same Print window, as others have mentioned.

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[Robert Melson]

In article <[email protected]>,
Peter <[email protected]> writes:

Joe Makowiec wrote:
File>Print Preview; find the text you're interested in; in the Print
dialog, 'Print range' Pages [startpage] to [endpage], at least in the
Windows version of FF.

The same functionality is available in the Linux version of Firefox.

I tried saving the "page" to a file and I see to have
gotten only the portion in which I'm interested.

When you use File > Save As there are options about what you want to save.
You can select html only, complete page, text only, etc.


HTH

Peter

Depending on how much you want to print, you can highlight the block within
your browser, then click on "print selection" within the print menu. If you
are printing whole pages, your best bet would be to select "print pages" and
enter the start and end pages. This is assuming you have a decent browser - I
don't use any of the universal computer virus from Redmond (haven't for years),
so can't address what Internet Exploder might do, besides crash.

HTH,
Bob Melson

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