Douglas St.Clair wrote: > Are you doinG a copy and paste or saving the document from the browser > as html and then opening it? > > > On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Twayne wrote: > >> I occasionally copy web pages to Writer. The results are seldom >> satisfactory, resulting in huge open spaces with no text or images, >> large, empty "images" that aren't in the original that I can tell or >> see >> in the source, and generalized horizontal misalignment, too.
I'm using copy/paste. If it weren't that Word did such a good job (which I want to wean myself from) and OO.o such a bad job, I guess I'd just shrug it off. I was hoping this would be one of those "Just go to ... and ... and you'll be all set, dummy" type answers. It takes a little experimenting but if I copy/paste smaller pieces of the pages, sort of a subject at a time, then I can sometimes succeed in getting a useful document but not always. And how little/much to copy at a time is always a crapshoot. I've studied the source code of a few of the problem type pages, usually Tech Support related pages, but haven't been able to reliably attribute it to any specific thing in the source. At one piont I thought maybe div tags, or possibly PHP nuances, but no luck tying them to anything in the files displays. Obviously it's in the way the programs treat HTML and probably the invisible characters that come along with such a copy, but I can't pin anything down. Thanks for your consideration, Douglas. Regards, Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
