Hi,

If you guys are like me, you often save a web page for off-line
viewing or archiving purposes.  I also often print out a web page for
leisure reading, but more often than I wish, the printout is clipped
(firefox is a big culprit here) or the output is not as good as it
could be.

I knew I could open URL's via Gnome's gEdit text editor (File | Open
Location). So I thought to myself - I wonder if OpenOffice Writer
could do the same. What a welcome surprise, it can! "File | Open | and
enter the URL | click Open". Wait a few seconds and the web page with
images will appear in OpenOffice Writer. Now I can save it as a single
ODT file, delete unwanted ads and do minor formatting before I print.
:-)

Now I wish Firefox had an extension to save as OpenDocument Text
(odt), but using OpenOffice directly works just as well.  One
limitation though, is that OpenOffice Writer doesn't support opening a
webpage that contains frames.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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