By contrast, in Jaguar the same action captures neither the clickable links nor the images.
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Many web sites, especially news sites, offer some sort of "printable page" option. For an example, click on "Print Hint" below. One advantage of OS X is "Print to PDF" to render nice digital copies of such pages to file and read later. However, "Print to PDF" offers at best limited control over how the page(s) looks, and does not imbed links. With Panther, one can instead "select all" on the desired web page, then copy and paste (or select "New Window Containing Selection" under Services -> TextEdit) into TextEdit: this will preserve the style, color, etc. of the text -- as well as imbed (most) images and links (though background colors and multi-column pages are not preserved). Unlike PDFs, one can then easily edit the resulting file -- changing fonts or margins, editing out any unnecessary content (such as banner ads), etc. -- and still preserve the URLs within the file for future reference. (And then print the result to PDF, if desired.)
By contrast, in Jaguar the same action captures neither the clickable links nor the images.
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10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
only works in safari, not in explorer as far as i can see…
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
well, who uses explorer anyway? ;-) Now that I'm here: For those who writes journals blogs etc. MacJournal is an extended TextEdit. Very cool, take a look!
MacJournal
Additionally, MacJournal supports PDF viewing in-line as well. So you can mix rtf files, images, MS Word docs (!), and PDFs all in one journal, all by dragging and dropping. And it's all stored in the MacJournal database.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
It also doesn't work in OmniWeb 4.5. You get the styled text but no images, links, frames, etc. This is pretty much a Safari-only hint so far.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
Yes, I concede I only tested this hint in Safari -- I didn't realize I hadn't mentioned Safari in the hint. Too bad it doesn't work in other browsers, but it is a nice perk and significant improvement over Jaguar.
For those who really need this functionality, a switch to Safari (if they aren't already using it) seems necessary. I wonder what percentage of Mac OS X users do not use Safari? I'd guess a sizable majority do use Safari, but actual data (as opposed to a whole bunch of individual anecdotes) would be interesting. Rob, do you have access stats by browser and platform for MOXH?
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
I use OmniWeb because it is pretty much Safari with more options. It uses the same rendering engine as Safari and has much better filters, cookie handling, bookmarks, browser versioning, forms handling, etc. Safari does a few tricks better too, such as tabs and all. It all comes down to preferences but OmniWeb definitely gives Safari a run for it's money.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
OmniWeb gives Safari a run for its money!!!!
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
You only get nagged once in a while with OmniWeb if you don't register it. The registration nag is actually kinda funny too, I used to enjoy seeing it actually.
Looking for help with an applescript for this...
Since this is about as close as we're going to get to the scrapbook function found in IE (saving whole web pages in one file), I've been trying to automate this with an applescript.
Unfortunately, I don't know diddly about scripting and could use some help. Here's what I have so far:
Now, obviously, this does not quite work as intended. It does select the contents of the page in Safari, copies and then pastes it into a new document in TextEdit. What I'd like it to do is this: After the paste into TextEdit, automatically have the file named after the window in Safari and saved in a specific folder (for example, "~/Users/MyName/Documents/Web Snapshots/" At this point, I give up. But I would love to use this while in Safari to archive articles without any fuss. Can anybody lend a hand with this little project? I also thought others might be interested in using this, too -- once it's finished! Thanks for your time.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
If you are using Camino or (I think) any mozilla (1.2 or better) browser you can just go to file > Save As.. Choose HTML Complete (if it is not the default) give it a name "aname" and it will create "aname.html" and a folder called "aname".
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
The one (obvious) caveat is if you have TextEdit's preference of new documents set to Plain Text (as opposed to Rich Text), you only get words without styles, colors, etc. Not that it really matters, but FYI.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
Doesn't work with Mozilla Firebird either, which I find much faster, more reliable on web pages, and more fully featured than Safari. Must mean that Firebird is a Carbon app instead of a Cocoa app so the services don't work! Wow it is scary how fast Firebird would be if it was Cocoa code if it is this fast as a Carbon app!
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
Cocoa apps don't necessarily have a speed advantage over Carbon apps, except perhaps in the speed with which they can be developed **from scratch**. Some would even argue the contrary, but I'm not going there today!
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
carbon apps can also use services.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
Then from Text Edit you can copy and paste into Mail app and have HTML email also with embedded links.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit - HTML email
This deserves to be a hint of its own.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit - HTML email
I take that back, because it doesn't work. Embedded links don't link. Things that look like links may (http://foo.com), but not truely embedded links where the link isn't seen on the original page. As usual YMMV.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
If you use Mozilla (and probably Thunderbird) you can also copy web pages and paste them into an email and the HTML formatting will follow. This is especially useful for sending someone a fragment of a webpage that includes a table, or for printing it.
10.3: Print web pages to TextEdit
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