Jack wrote: > On 2019.04.30 18:12, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> As some know, I got a printer. Now I'm trying to get some info and >> print it using LOo for the most part. This is the way I do this. I go >> to a web page, sites will vary, and I highlight what I want and copy it >> to the clipboard. I then go to LOo and paste it as HTML, since that is >> what it is. At that point, LOo fetches things like pics and such to >> place on the document. It takes a little time and I avoid copying >> videos since it can't print a video. For the most part, this works >> great. It takes a minute or so to fetch the pics and such and >> everything looks fine. I remove anything I don't want such as ads and >> such. Basically, it looks like the web page but I can edit it to make >> fonts larger etc. However, sometimes it doesn't work. > > [snip ......] > > One important thing to remember is that when you copy/paste part of a > web page, it is not a complete HTML document, but only part of one. > There are lots of things you probably didn't copy, many of which are > not actually visible, such as css definitions, for example. You may > also end up with invalid HTML if what you copied does not have > correctly matched opening and closing tags for all the parts you > copied. When I do this type of thing to get a good print, I do a > "Save as..." in the browser, and then open the HTML doc in LO and > delete what I don't want. I also sometimes try saving as a plain LO > doc, instead of HTML, but always saving a copy before I make that > change, as I've found it has an inconsistent effect - depending > (probably) on how the original HTML was created. A lot of web pages > seem to have been created by tools which create very convoluted HTML, > often with lots of javascript assisting in the layout, and I don't > believe that LO can do anything with js (although I'm not absolutely > certain about that.) > > I'm sure others will have more concrete suggestions. > > Jack >
That may explain why a lot of pages work and others don't. Some pages may not contain things that LOo has trouble figuring out while other pages have things that just plain doesn't work. I'm trying to save a page and opening it locally, assuming it will store the pics and such locally as well. Maybe that will also help LOo to load things up correctly. I noticed something on a page I tried since I started this thread. When I scroll to something that isn't loaded, it starts to downloading whatever is missing and freezes up. Thing is, it downloads for a long time but never actually fetches the pic that is missing. If things are broken from LOo's point of view as you point out, that may explain why it is having trouble rendering the doc since it can't fetch some info on certain pages. Let me try this and see if that helps. You gave me a couple different ways to test out. I hadn't thought of doing it those ways. It's extra steps but once I get it, I got it for good. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
