Guys:
I couldn't help overhearing your recent conversation re: downloading
from the Web.
Why not try copying to a WordPerfect document. You get it into your chosen
font and don't have to worry about your system resources. You can even copy
it to a document on your a drive, if you need to.
Hope that helps!
SGB
At 10:45 AM 3/2/96 -0500, Ann C. Davidson wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Nov 14 2007 - 20:49:11 PST