RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-10-01 Thread Faan DeSwardt
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

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-10-01 Thread Mladen Gogala
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

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-10-01 Thread Jesse, Rich
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

Re: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-10-01 Thread Tanel Poder
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

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-24 Thread Bob Metelsky
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

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
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

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-23 Thread Andy Rivenes
And easier way is to use a Netscape browser and the Save Frame As... option. Andy Rivenes At 04:24 AM 9/23/2003 -0800, Boivin, Patrice J wrote: 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

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Netscape has been banned from our workplace. It's not the corporate standard. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 4:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L And easier way is to use a Netscape browser and the Save Frame As... option. Andy Rivenes At

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-23 Thread Jesse, Rich
/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: download metalink articles - save target as Netscape has been banned from our workplace

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-22 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: download metalink articles - save target as When I right click on a metalink article to try to save it to a local directory and use save target as - it only provides a blank file. What's the easiest way to save these files locally? I want to because sometimes the more useful ones

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-22 Thread GovindanK
You need to cut paste. HTH GovindanK -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L When I right click on a metalink article to try to save it to a local directory and use save target as - it only provides a blank

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-22 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: download metalink articles - save target as Oh man!!! -Original Message- From: GovindanK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: download metalink articles - save target as You need

RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
Paula, I think the problem may lie in MetaLink's use of the icky icky frame construct (See http://www.useit.com/ for explanation of why frames are bad and aren't even needed). You don't say what browser you're using, but I can guess. Toss out that virus-toting piece of dung, IEeee.

RE: download Metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
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RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-22 Thread Vordos, Suzy
MS Outlook a.k.a Outhouse Mail. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 1:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Paula, I think the problem may lie in MetaLink's use of the icky icky frame construct (See http://www.useit.com/ for explanation of why frames are bad

Re: RE: download metalink articles - save target as

2003-09-22 Thread Prem Khanna J
Paula, 1.open the article in a new window. 2.right click view source 3.save as *.html this is what i do. Jp. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I right click on a metalink article to try to save it to a local directory and use save target as - it only provides a blank file.