ajbuck...
I'm very pleased to know that you've found some workable solutions.
It sounds like the services you offer are very worthy of some
suitable tools. I will summarize my input in a formal answer below,
but I first wanted to address a point in your last clarification.
With regard to GhostView, you wrote:
"I couldn't figure out which part to download to make it work."
Although you're purchasing the CD I wanted to point you to the
section of the webpage which I think is relevant to your needs.
I assume you're using one of the Microsoft Windows Operating
Systems, in which case the following section of the page is
what you need:
"Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP"
"You will need to obtain and run the self-extracting EXE
gs800w32.exe, AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 for Win32 5766144 bytes"
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs800/gs800w32.exe
"You can unzip this if you want to check the contents."
"It is recommended that you also install GSview, a graphical
interface to Ghostscript.
gsv44w32.exe, GSview 4.4 for Win32 1570816 bytes"
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv44w32.exe
The above is from the page already discussed:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get800.htm
Should you want to install GhostView prior to receiving the
CD, the above may be of use.
Previous input follows:
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Okay, if you're viewing the page in Internet Explorer, there are
a few options as to how to save the file, which you will see if
use the drop-down menu next to 'Save as type:', after you select
File -> Save As from the IE menu. Basically, you can select:
Web page, complete [*.htm;*.html]
Web Archive, single file [*.mht]
Web page, HTML only [*.htm;*.html]
Text file [*.txt]
I have discussed the relative merits of these formats in this
previous question I answered:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=225370
You note that when you utilize the 'Save As' protocol,
gibberish comes up on your zip drive. I'm not clear on
exactly what that means. I would assume that, if you are
saving a 'web page, complete' to your zip drive, you are
seeing an htm or html file on the zip drive, but when you
click on it to open it, you're not seeing the desired page.
In addition to the html file, you should also have a folder
with the same title as the html file, which contains the
images and css (cascading style sheet) files for the page.
If the folder is missing, you will not see the page as it
should be. Additionally, the html filenames must match the
names of the folders which contain the pertintent files.
If you are frequently saving pages from the same site, you
should be certain that you are using unique filenames for
each one, as the default names may be the same for a page
which has been updated with new content, but has the same
page title.
Even if the html file and the folder are present, you may
not be able to see the page properly if you are not online
with an active connection. Many of the links will still be
web-based and will require an active connection to work
properly. Given that, when you click on the html file on
your zip drive, your browser should open the file and use
both the contents of the related folder and your active
internet connection to show you the complete page.
The more I hear, the more I'm convinced you would do best by
saving your webpages in .pdf format. If you do screenshots,
yes, you would have to take multiple images to cover a page
which requires you to scroll down. Using a pdf program, on
the other hand, you can capture an entire page (which might
consist of several scrolled pages), in a single pdf file.
For example, the page referred to on the other question, which
outlines 'Creating a PDF From Anything With GSView on Windows'
http://etd.jhu.edu/etdpublic/howto/pdfinstructions/
is full of images, and is 6 pages long when scrolled. I was
able to capture the entire long page in a 119KB pdf file, using
PDFfactory Pro. This is smaller than the html webpage, which
is 6KB for the html file, and 132KB for the supporting folder
of image files. It is also smaller than any set of image files
obtained from screen captures. And the pdf version looks
exactly like the webpage, with everything intact. Since the
Adobe Reader software, needed to view the pdf file, is free
and easily obtained, this is an ideal format for making the
pages available to others. You can either send the file to
your printer or email it as an attachment, which should save
you on some costs. Additionally, the page will always look
exactly as it does when you capture the pdf file. The images
and content are independent of whether or not you have access
to the internet.
PDFfactory Pro and PDFfactory are available from Fineprint
software, at the following page, for $99.95 and $49.95:
http://www.pdffactory.com/products/pdffactory/
Or, you can download them for free, as I did, and I'm not aware
of any time limit on their use. Per that same page:
"Trial version prints a small banner on each page. Purchasing
will remove the banner."
The banner is unobtrusive, and good advertising for them.
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the answer cannot be improved upon by way of additional
clarifications, as needed.
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Searches done, via Google (simplified by the fact that I
own a copy of PDFfactory Pro):
PDFfactory Pro
://www.google.com/search?q=PDFfactory+Pro |
