OT Web Page Capture App

Mayayana wrote:
| The editor I use:
|
| syntax colour highlighting - yes (HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript)

Ah. I thought you were talking about a variation
on Notepad. The colorcoding really helps to see
what's what.

| attribute lookup - not necessary, I can remember the few I use

You're a better man than I am. I often forget things
like whether VALIGN works with this, or only with that.

VALIGN? Just use CSS. You know it make sense.

With CSS it's worse.

Ah.

I never bothered to learn all the
properties and their possible values, so I find a popup
"intellisense" auto-insert menu makes things much easier.
(I don't believe all that stuff about improving memory
with age by memorizing things and doing crossword
puzzles. I'll take all the crutches I can get.)

Use it or lose it, that's what I say.

| web page view - I prefer using a real browser
|

I use a real browser. It's basically an IE window
embedded in my software. I also customized it so that
I can hover over an element and see the styles for
that element.

I usually have a Firefox window and a Firebug window open on the other
monitor. Edit, Ctrl+S, Alt+Tab, F5, rinse and repeat. Using Firebug I
can tinker with styles and see the effect as I type (Firebug does have
auto-complete which makes guesswork easier, and its illustration of the
cascade is excellent). Firebug also has a comprehensive JavaScript
debugger which works very well. So, no need for such things in my editor.

Some of my apps are for Safari only so I end up using the Web Inspector
in Safari which is somewhat similar to Firebug. One big advantage of
Safari is that it highlights any CSS it doesn't recognise.

I think everyone is different with webpage design
and coding, but for me there's only one sensible
way to do it: I design the page in quirks mode for
IE, which takes care of all IE versions "in one fell
swoop". I then take that page and adapt it until it
looks the same way in Firefox. That takes care of
all other browsers. The result is two variations that
don't need script and display dependably in all browsers
with needing to resort to hacks like !-- If IE8......

You're right, everyone's different. I tend to keep things simple so that
everything "just works" in other browsers. Mind you I don't bend over
backwards to accommodate vintage versions of IE.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

Mike Barnes wrote on 5/29/2015 5:05 AM:
Bob R wrote:
Is there an app that will capture all contents of a highlighted area on
a webpage, text and images, and put in a .DOC or similar editable
format? I can save to a PDF but get all the other garbage on the page.
The PDF looks like the webpage.

I can do this with great difficulty using Libre Office, however, the
images, although there, are badly sized and the page format is messed
up some. I save from Libre Office to a .DOC and open In Word and try
to edit but it is a nightmare too. Editing text and graphics in Word
is nearly impossible.

Suggestions please.

Responding to OP:

How about a screen capture program like SnagIt? Save as an image or a
PDF and then open with an OCR program like ABBYY Finereader. Then save
to DOC.

On 29/05/2015 00:46, Bob R wrote:
Is there an app that will capture all contents of a highlighted area
on a webpage, text and images, and put in a .DOC or similar editable
format? I can save to a PDF but get all the other garbage on the
page. The PDF looks like the webpage.

I can do this with great difficulty using Libre Office, however, the
images, although there, are badly sized and the page format is messed
up some. I save from Libre Office to a .DOC and open In Word and try
to edit but it is a nightmare too. Editing text and graphics in Word
is nearly impossible.

Suggestions please.



Windows 7 and higher has got what is called Snipping tool. For XP I was
using "Jing" but not sure if it is still available for XP but for
Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 it is still available free of charge.