Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
version?

TIA

On 2007-06-30 10:25:48 -0500, paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) said:

> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
> version?

Can you not just display the web page in question in Safari and choose 
File > Print from the Safari menu bar?

-- 
JR

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:25:48 -0500, Paul Fuchs wrote
(in article <1i0iq7y.1p1kcccjmqtecN%paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink>):

> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
> version?
> 
> TIA

If you Adobe Acrobat (the Acrobat app, not the Reader) you can create PDFs 
from a website, drilling down levels and going to links off the main site.

Sometimes the result is good, sometimes bad.

-- 

Tim
lance_1012@hotmail.com

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:59:15 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article <2007063010591584492-jollyroger@REMOVEpoboxcom>):

> On 2007-06-30 10:25:48 -0500, paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) 
> said:
> 
>> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
>> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
>> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
>> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
>> version?
> 
> Can you not just display the web page in question in Safari and choose 
> File > Print from the Safari menu bar?
> 
> 

Does that not just get the page showing?

-- 

Tim
lance_1012@hotmail.com

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:25:48 -0500, Paul Fuchs wrote
(in article <1i0iq7y.1p1kcccjmqtecN%paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink>):

> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
> version?
> 
> TIA

There are shareware apps available. I once used a trial version of 
Webstractor. See versiontracker/macupdate.

-- 

Tim
lance_1012@hotmail.com

On 2007-06-30 12:23:23 -0500, Tim Lance <see.sig@bottom.com> said:

> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:59:15 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> (in article <2007063010591584492-jollyroger@REMOVEpoboxcom>):
> 
>> On 2007-06-30 10:25:48 -0500, paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs)
>> said:
>> 
>>> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
>>> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
>>> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
>>> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
>>> version?
>> 
>> Can you not just display the web page in question in Safari and choose
>> File > Print from the Safari menu bar?
> 
> Does that not just get the page showing?

Doh!  I left out a crucial part of my answer - sorry.

1. Open the web archive in Safari to display it.
2. From the Safari menu bar, choose File > Print.
3. In the Print dialog box, choose PDF > Save As PDF.

-- 
JR

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:45:32 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
(in article <200706301245328930-jollyroger@REMOVEpoboxcom>):

> On 2007-06-30 12:23:23 -0500, Tim Lance <see.sig@bottom.com> said:
> 
>> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:59:15 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
>> (in article <2007063010591584492-jollyroger@REMOVEpoboxcom>):
>> 
>>> On 2007-06-30 10:25:48 -0500, paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs)
>>> said:
>>> 
>>>> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
>>>> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
>>>> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
>>>> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
>>>> version?
>>> 
>>> Can you not just display the web page in question in Safari and choose
>>> File > Print from the Safari menu bar?
>> 
>> Does that not just get the page showing?
> 
> Doh!  I left out a crucial part of my answer - sorry.
> 
> 1. Open the web archive in Safari to display it.
> 2. From the Safari menu bar, choose File > Print.
> 3. In the Print dialog box, choose PDF > Save As PDF.
> 
> 

Well, I have a D'oh! of my own. I missed the OP's use of "web archive."

-- 

Tim
lance_1012@hotmail.com

In article <1i0iq7y.1p1kcccjmqtecN%paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink>,
 paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> PDF file.


Unless I'm missing something, the easy and free way to do this is to 
open up the WebArchive in Safari, choose Print from the file menu and 
then save as PDF from the button/menu abomination in the lower-left 
corner of the print sheet.

> If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?

I've got a freeware tool called WebArchive Folderizer that will rip a 
webarchive apart into its component resources and build a hierarchy 
mimicking the original site. Note, though, that this may not exactly 
reproduce what Safari showed you for the site because some of the 
resources may not have been local and as a result not saved in the 
archive. Assuming this did give satisfactory results, though, you could 
then zip the tree and mail it, or pretty much any other thing you might 
like.

<http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29095>

Jolly Roger <jollyroger@R.E.M.O.V.E.pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2007-06-30 12:23:23 -0500, Tim Lance <see.sig@bottom.com> said:
> 
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:59:15 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote
> > (in article <2007063010591584492-jollyroger@REMOVEpoboxcom>):
> > 
> >> On 2007-06-30 10:25:48 -0500, paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs)
> >> said:
> >> 
> >>> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> >>> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
> >>> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
> >>> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
> >>> version?
> >> 
> >> Can you not just display the web page in question in Safari and choose
> >> File > Print from the Safari menu bar?
> > 
> > Does that not just get the page showing?
> 
> Doh!  I left out a crucial part of my answer - sorry.
> 
> 1. Open the web archive in Safari to display it.
> 2. From the Safari menu bar, choose File > Print.
> 3. In the Print dialog box, choose PDF > Save As PDF.

Thanks JR and Gregory.  Pretty obvious but I didn't think of it.  Works
fine and the file reasonably sized.

In article <uce-DCB930.22525730062007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
 Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote:

> 
> > Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> > PDF file.
> 

I've not yet worked with Safari webarchives, but if you drag a complete 
HTML package, one that you've generated or somehow captured, into the 
Sites folder on your Mac, it seems to become, in effect, a web page (the 
Sites folder seems to have some magic properties of acting like a web 
server for everything within it).

You can then convert this "web site" to PDF using the "Create PDF from 
Web Page" command in Acrobat -- something I've not been able to do if 
the same HTML package is elsewhere in the Finder.

Not free, but easy (and Acrobat is worth having for other purposes).

In article <1i0iq7y.1p1kcccjmqtecN%paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink>,
 paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> PDF file.  If no, to convert into a html archive file that could be
> opened as an attachment by Windows Internet Explorer?  Would a Mac
> Internet Explorer 5.2 saved archive be openable in the current XP
> version?
> 
> TIA


Sure. Just hit "Print" then click the PDF button on the lower left of 
the dialog box and choose, "Save as PDF".

-- 
m-m

In article <siegman-DA6034.06545501072007@news.stanford.edu>,
 AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <uce-DCB930.22525730062007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
>  Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> > > PDF file.
> > 
> 
> I've not yet worked with Safari webarchives, but if you drag a complete 
> HTML package, one that you've generated or somehow captured, into the 
> Sites folder on your Mac, it seems to become, in effect, a web page (the 
> Sites folder seems to have some magic properties of acting like a web 
> server for everything within it).

As far as I know the only thing magic about the Sites folder is that 
that's where Apache will look for content when you enable the "personal 
web server" option or whatever it's called in sharing preferences. For 
purely local use, Safari will work with any properly-formed HTML file 
you throw at it and link all the referenced resources correctly (as long 
as the URIs are correct, obviously).

Safari webarchive files are a binary variant of the Apple property list 
format, containing the resources that comprised a single loaded page.

In article <uce-168BDA.21080401072007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
 Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote:

> In article <siegman-DA6034.06545501072007@news.stanford.edu>,
>  AES <siegman@stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> > In article <uce-DCB930.22525730062007@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> >  Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Is there an easy and/or free way to convert a Safari webarchive into a
> > > > PDF file.
> > > 
> > 
> > I've not yet worked with Safari webarchives, but if you drag a complete 
> > HTML package, one that you've generated or somehow captured, into the 
> > Sites folder on your Mac, it seems to become, in effect, a web page (the 
> > Sites folder seems to have some magic properties of acting like a web 
> > server for everything within it).
> 
> As far as I know the only thing magic about the Sites folder is that 
> that's where Apache will look for content when you enable the "personal 
> web server" option or whatever it's called in sharing preferences. For 
> purely local use, Safari will work with any properly-formed HTML file 
> you throw at it and link all the referenced resources correctly (as long 
> as the URIs are correct, obviously).
> 

Indeed. It is a nicely brilliant bit of OS X (at least Tiger). 
You can make an html page with links to whatever you want that is 
in your sites folder, call this file index.html and put it at the 
top level of the Sites folder. If you turn on your server, note 
the address (the second "user" one) at the bottom of your 
"Sharing" preference pane and go to it in Safari. Bookmark it and 
stick it on the Safari bookmark bar, call it My Server or 
whatever. Your index.html file should open up with all the links 
to the rest of your stuff. 

The server turned on will come into its own if you use your 
machine as a development platform for the web, you can turn on 
PHP and use all sorts of functions, all of which are not 
otherwise available from the normal practice of grabbing an html 
file and dropping it on top of a browser.

-- 
dorayme