Re: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a web page

Hi :)
Wow!  I was about to point out that Gary is on Windows, and therefore has a
very limited command-line, but then i found that "wget" IS available for
Windows!!

From the Gnu.Org link i found that possibly the best link is;
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm
because it has some back-ground information.  The;
https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/
link is very bare-bones but does give the ".exe"'s for various systems as
zipped files or in one case as the uncompressed exe itself.

From the first link the "Install Instructions" are at;
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/install.html

With an FAQ at;
http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions?
(at a guess the "?" stops Internet Explorer from being able to get to that
page!)

The full guide/manual is at;
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/
The heading on that page refers to "The GNU Operating System".
<rant>
Which most people refer to as Linux but that page calls Gnu/Linux and then
describes how it is Gnu & Linux together that form the whole OS (although
yes the Gnu part is MUCH the larger part(s) of the whole OS) = so i tend to
refer to it as Gnu&Linux.  Really I think the Gnu people should wake up to
the fact that they have already lost this naming fight (only about 20-30
years ago!) and that although it is desperately unfair it just causes
confusion to mention Gnu this late in the game.
</rant>
Anyway, ignore the heading because if you look closely you'll see the
guide/manual is just for the Wget command, not 'the' entire OS!

Regards from
Tom :)




On 20 October 2015 at 20:41, <libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> Gary Collins wrote:
>
> > I've just tried this in firefox. A couple of things:
> >
> > 1) access to the file save option seems to be indirect - but maybe there
> > is a way to customise this, I haven't got time to check at the moment; but
> >
> > 2) much more importantly - it does indeed save as a single file, but the
> > formatting is *awful* nothing like the original page, and pictures,
> > graphics, etc are not there - just links. That's not what I want to see
> > when  I open a webpage file, I want to see the page (more or less) the same
> > as it was originally when I opened it online.
>
> I think Firefox is similar, but in SeaMonkey (based on Firefox) under File
> > Save As there are a couple of options:
>
> - "Web Page, complete" saves referenced files images, stylesheets, etc. in
> a folder alongside the HTML file and changes the references in the HTML
> file to refer to the saved copies. It still sometimes misses some, I guess
> if the references are generated dynamically by a script it can't reliably
> predict what might be needed.
>
> - "Web Page, HTML only" just saves the HTML file without all the other
> resources. In that case, I think the references are left as they were
> originally, so you'll see them if you have Internet access and they're
> still available at the same URLs (or your browser has cached them). If not,
> you won't get the images, stylesheets, etc.
>
> Which raises another issue: I save pages for later viewing on a machine
> > that doesn't have an internet connection. I'm assuming that an internet
> > connection will be essential to follow any of the hyperlinks in the file,
> > which would render the format useless for my purposes.
>
> You might want to look at wget:
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
> It's a command-line utility which can not only download web pages along
> with referenced resources, just as the "complete" option above does, but
> also recursively follow links - so you would be able to follow them
> offline. I believe it mirrors the structure of resources from the server,
> so for example if the same image is used on every page you only download it
> once.
>
> I guess it would still suffer the same limitations with dynamically
> generated references.
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
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