On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:11, you wrote: > > > What do people use to convert html pages to a legible formatted text > > > representation? > > > > I find "links" is very good for that. > > It's screen rendering looks very good with the one page I could only > handle with netscape 4 yesterday. No kudos though for making > tab-completion unsable by requiring file://`pwd`/file instead of just > ./file. I'd also need to hammer it into using latin-1 instead of 7bit > output. The docs are rather insubstantial - big question: how do I get > the output into a file? If I wanted screen display, konqueror does that > just fine. > > links <./file DON'T EVER DO THAT! > > links file://... >out sits there waiting forever for input. > > > http://www.softmaker.de/ > > > > Seemed to work quite well on a simple page. > > Interesting - didn't know there was another commercial word processor > for Linux (the office version is "under development"). Though I don't > object to purchasing commercial software (if it's good), spending > $70/$80 on a word processor with the only interesting function of > converting html to text doesn't appeal so much.
There is a free of cost evaluation version which is good for 30 days. From what I have seen during a quick play I think this product is probably now ( the beta was flushing material ) worth examining more closely. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
