[X-Newbies] Am I....

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 10:39 PM +0100 2/16/05, Keith MILLS wrote:
>My reality is obviously not the same as other people's!
>
>All I want to do is put a single page onto my desktop, complete with 
>photos. without having to be on line. Which is often the case with 
>the way I work.
>
>1. PDF - not much use to me in this context because I can't edit/ 
>cut and paste for example. It's beautifully there, but untouchable!!

I can't imagine why - when the file is open in Preview, you are able 
to click the text selection tool at the upper right (middle icon) and 
select text normally. Or, you can click the right-most marque 
selection to select any rectangular area.

So you can copy stuff and use it elsewhere but indeed cannot edit the 
PDF page itself.

>2. Very clever - all-singing, all-dancing; but much more than I want 
>with all the links. AND I have to go on line to use it.

Why would you go on-line to use it? Once you have the selection as a 
TextEdit document, you'd only have to go on-line if you tried to 
*follow* a lnik. The page that you were viewing in the browser and 
that you've captured is saved on your machine. [And in this case, is 
quite editable]

If instead, your question is about capturing a site, including the 
linked documents, images and other media that is further in than the 
page you are looking at, then you'll need different solutions. These 
are also readily available but that's not the question that I've been 
answering.
-- 
'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]