I ran into a similar problem when trying to download from
the Web. Fortunately, Windows offers a workaround that may help
(I'm assuming you're using a Windows-based webcrawler such as
Netscape). Just take your mouse pointer up to the Edit menu on
the top menu, pull down the menu and click on "Select All."
You'll see the document text highlighted. Then go back into Edit,
and click on "Copy." This will save the document to the Windows
clipboard, and you can then simply pull it up into any Windows
word processor and print it. It's just straight unadorned text,
and it ain't pretty, but the information is there, and there's no
html cleanup involved.
Just one caveat: watch your system resources. To check on
those, go to the Help on the top menu, and click on "About
Program Manager." Pay attention to the number at the bottom
showing how much of your system resources remain free for use. If
it's under 50%, and you have a big document you need to copy, you
may blow up Netscape and lose your work. (I did that the other
day trying to get a 25-page opinion off the Villanova 3rd Circuit
site.) Also, some documents may be too big for the Windows
clipboard to handle. But for smaller documents this method works
just fine. You'll have to experiment to see how big a document
you can copy doing it this way. Personally, I find that even on a
two- or three-page document having to do html cleanup is too
time-consuming, so I really like this method.
Hope this helps!
Ann Davidson
Biddle Law Library
University of Pennsylvania
adavidso@oyez.law.upenn.edu
Opinions expressed are mine, not those of my institution.
> 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?
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.
>
>
> Mary Lynn Wagner
> 1800 Provident Tower
> One East Fourth Street
> Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
> 513/579-6902
> 513/579-6457Fax
>
>
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