On Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:45:35 -0600 (CST), Jim Milles
<millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, mary lynn wagner wrote:
> > Thanks to every one who helped with my golf questions.
> > I would like to obtain some info from all the Internet savvy people out there
> > regarding Internet readers. It's been my experience that info downloaded from
> > the net contains a bunch of html codes that make print jobs very difficult to
> > read and very time consuming to "clean up". Can readers such as Acrobat or
> > Envoy help with this process? If not, what are these for?
The Adobe Acrobat reader is used to read files in Adobe's Portable
Document Format (PDF). I haven't used any of Adobe's PDF authoring
tools, so I don't know the details about this format. The PDF
documents I've seen tend to look more like their originals than HTML
equivalents, in part because PDF allows the document to specify
particular fonts and other elements more precisely (or, from the
point of view of HTML partisans, more inflexibly) than HTML.
Are there other
> > readers out there? Is one better than the other? Are they used for different
> > things? Any suggestions as to where I can find (web sites) info on the readers?
> > Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I think the "reader" you want is a
> WWW browser such as Netscape. Netscape (and any other browser I know of,
> except Lynx) allows you to print directly any WWW page.
While Lynx won't let a remote user print "directly", the print
command (mapped to the "p" key) generally gives the user a number of
options for turning an html file into ASCII. These usually include
emailing the file to an address, saving it to a file in the user's
directory on the remote system, and downloading it to a local disk
using the zmodem protocol. (Some of these options may be
disabled by a particular system, but the e-mail option is almost
always available.) Once the file is on a local disk, any word
processing program should be able to open it, though if it's been
e-mailed, the mail header will have to be removed.
> If for some reason you want to download a page and then print it at a
> later time, you can still read it with Netscape using the "Open file"
> command.
It's worth noting that Netscape allows the user to save a file either
as its (usually HTML) source or as (ASCII) text. (The option should
be available in the "Save As..." dialog). Saving as text may be more
useful if the user wants to use the text in a document (since it can
be read by any word processor), but it will lose much of the
original web page's formatting.
Michael S. Schiffer
Northwestern University Law Library
mssl7s@nuls.law.nwu.edu
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