There was an article about this very thing in the Jan/Feb issue of ONLINE
magazine at page 57, entitled "Just What You Wanted for Christmas: An
HTML Stripper." Gives instruction on how tomake a stripper for Word and
Word Perfect (albeit WP5 and not WP6).
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On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, 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
> >
> >
>
>
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