Safari webarchive > pdf?
Paul Fuchs
PDF file. If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer? Would a Mac
Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
version?
TIA
Jolly Roger
Can you not just display the web page in question in Safari and choose
File > Print from the Safari menu bar?
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JR
Jolly Roger
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:59:15 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> (in article <2007063010591584492-jollyroger@REMOVEpoboxcom>):
> Does that not just get the page showing?
Doh! I left out a crucial part of my answer - sorry.
1. Open the web archive in Safari to display it.
2. From the Safari menu bar, choose File > Print.
3. In the Print dialog box, choose PDF > Save As PDF.
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JR
Gregory Weston
paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:
> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> PDF file.
Unless I'm missing something, the easy and free way to do this is to
open up the WebArchive in Safari, choose Print from the file menu and
then save as PDF from the button/menu abomination in the lower-left
corner of the print sheet.
> If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?
I've got a freeware tool called WebArchive Folderizer that will rip a
webarchive apart into its component resources and build a hierarchy
mimicking the original site. Note, though, that this may not exactly
reproduce what Safari showed you for the site because some of the
resources may not have been local and as a result not saved in the
archive. Assuming this did give satisfactory results, though, you could
then zip the tree and mail it, or pretty much any other thing you might
like.
Paul Fuchs
Thanks JR and Gregory. Pretty obvious but I didn't think of it. Works
fine and the file reasonably sized.
AES
Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> > PDF file.
>
I've not yet worked with Safari webarchives, but if you drag a complete
HTML package, one that you've generated or somehow captured, into the
Sites folder on your Mac, it seems to become, in effect, a web page (the
Sites folder seems to have some magic properties of acting like a web
server for everything within it).
You can then convert this "web site" to PDF using the "Create PDF from
Web Page" command in Acrobat -- something I've not been able to do if
the same HTML package is elsewhere in the Finder.
Not free, but easy (and Acrobat is worth having for other purposes).
Gregory Weston
AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> In article <uce-DCB930.2...@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> > > PDF file.
> >
>
> I've not yet worked with Safari webarchives, but if you drag a complete
> HTML package, one that you've generated or somehow captured, into the
> Sites folder on your Mac, it seems to become, in effect, a web page (the
> Sites folder seems to have some magic properties of acting like a web
> server for everything within it).
As far as I know the only thing magic about the Sites folder is that
that's where Apache will look for content when you enable the "personal
web server" option or whatever it's called in sharing preferences. For
purely local use, Safari will work with any properly-formed HTML file
you throw at it and link all the referenced resources correctly (as long
as the URIs are correct, obviously).
Safari webarchive files are a binary variant of the Apple property list
format, containing the resources that comprised a single loaded page.
dorayme
Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
> In article <siegman-DA6034...@news.stanford.edu>,
> AES <sie...@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> > In article <uce-DCB930.2...@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> > Gregory Weston <u...@splook.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> > > > PDF file.
> > >
> >
> > I've not yet worked with Safari webarchives, but if you drag a complete
> > HTML package, one that you've generated or somehow captured, into the
> > Sites folder on your Mac, it seems to become, in effect, a web page (the
> > Sites folder seems to have some magic properties of acting like a web
> > server for everything within it).
>
> As far as I know the only thing magic about the Sites folder is that
> that's where Apache will look for content when you enable the "personal
> web server" option or whatever it's called in sharing preferences. For
> purely local use, Safari will work with any properly-formed HTML file
> you throw at it and link all the referenced resources correctly (as long
> as the URIs are correct, obviously).
>
Indeed. It is a nicely brilliant bit of OS X (at least Tiger).
You can make an html page with links to whatever you want that is
in your sites folder, call this file index.html and put it at the
top level of the Sites folder. If you turn on your server, note
the address (the second "user" one) at the bottom of your
"Sharing" preference pane and go to it in Safari. Bookmark it and
stick it on the Safari bookmark bar, call it My Server or
whatever. Your index.html file should open up with all the links
to the rest of your stuff.
The server turned on will come into its own if you use your
machine as a development platform for the web, you can turn on
PHP and use all sorts of functions, all of which are not
otherwise available from the normal practice of grabbing an html
file and dropping it on top of a browser.
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dorayme