Or Scribus, which just went to stable release. http://www.scribus.org.uk/
"emerge -v scribus" on Gentoo... :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA > -----Original Message----- > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 3:35 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: download metalink articles - save target as > > > There is hard to find and very expensive software called "OpenOffice", > which, in version 1.1, allows you to read a HTML file and > export it to > PDF. The whole procedure takes about 5 minutes. For those of us who > don't have luxury of using MS-Word and MS-Office in general, > OpenOffice > is a gift from God McNeally. > > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:44, Faan DeSwardt wrote: > > The way I do it is to print the articles to a .PDF > converter like Win2PDF > (http://www.win2pdf.com/download/download.htm) that installs > a printer driver to which you can print anything you could > have printed to a regular printer. The free version has a > popup dialog but given the usefulness, is a small price to > pay for the convenience. > > > > This way you get it in a format that is platform > independent but maintains the formatting and layout. An > additional benefit is that you get the complete URL in the > footer which you can easily copy+paste into a browser to get > the latest update of the article on the web. > > > > I use this Web=>PDF technique on most articles I find on > the web, especially the ones with nice charts and graphics, > as saving them to disk sometimes do not include all those > pretty pictures...:-) > > > > -f > > > > -----Original Message----- > > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:50 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > > > > The grueling method is... > > > > grab the header, copy paste it into notepad.exe. That > strips the weird > > formatting out of it. > > > > Grab the body text, but not all the way down, try to guess where the > > body > > text frame ends and stop just before that. It may take a > few tries to > > find > > exactly where. > > > > copy paste into Wordpad.exe. > > > > > > Hehehe.. amazing what we have to go through. An easier > method I use it > > to view source - then chop out any erroneous html and "save as" > > mydoc.html > > Then you can view the html and copy out nicely... > > > > That's my workaround > > bob -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
