[X-Newbies] Am I....

[Jane]

If you just want the text, why not copy and paste and just drag the 
photos to your desktop? Some articles have a print or send option that 
gives you a more copy friendly page.

On Feb 16, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:

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>
>> ...... missing something on my OS 10.3.3?
>>
>> I read an article on a website page and decide that I want to save it
>> to my desktop for later use.
>
> There are probably multiple answers to this. You can save it as a PDF, 
> as has been pointed out, or if you use Netscape or IE (and maybe 
> Firefox too) you can save the page plus everything it references. This 
> is still somewhat dicey, as these tools may not save all the CSS 
> scripts or images embedded in CSS required to replicate the page 
> locally. (If the page is complex, saving a local copy can be involved)
>
> Since this is a newbies list, I think its appropriate to suggest that 
> you reconsider making local copies of web pages unless you have a 
> special reason for it. For a variety of reasons (it may take lots of 
> space, it may be broken, it won't update) that isn't a very good 
> general solution to making references. Even though bookmarks require 
> you to go online, they really work much better for referring back to 
> content at a later time.
>
> If you really *need* to do this, IE has a built-in "offline browse" 
> feature that will keep the site saved in your browser cache. Be 
> prepared for it to eat lots of disk space if you use it frequently.
>
> SR
>
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