thoughts on printing long webpage.

[kleinma]

Someone asked me to print out some webpages for them that are rather long on the Y axis. They are from a blog of this persons kid while they were away for the summer over seas, and they want to preserve it on paper. They want it printed on 8.5x11 paper to put in a binder.

Any thoughts on a relatively simple way that one could possibly print these long pages without a ton of manual cropping?

Basically looking for something that could shrink the width of the page down to fit 8.5" and spool across multiple pages for the length.

[abhijit]

If you want to save yourself the trouble, outsource this to
http://blog2print.sharedbook.com/blo...log/index.html

[kleinma]

that actually would probably serve the purpose very well except they happen to use tumblr which it doesn't look is supported by that service.

[Spoo]

Kleinma

I take it that the webpage is basically a diary, ie,
consisting primarily of text.

Couldn't you parse the basic HTML into an array?

Then, presuming that word wrapping occurs, you'd
probably need to sub-split a given "paragraph" into
individual lines. Alternatively, perhaps you could
dump it into Word and let it do the word-wrapping.

Spoo

[kleinma]

there are a lot of things I could do if I wanted to spend a ton of time on it, but they are looking to pay around $60, so it really has to be worth my time to find a solution. I can't spend hours on a 20 page blog parsing it up just to make a few bucks.

I tried doing direct copy/pastes to word in hopes I might be able to preserve most formatting and just have to do minor tweaks, but the result was pretty bad and would basically require a ton of time to make it look right.

[abhijit]

Is there a link to this blog?

[Spoo]

I can't spend hours on a 20 page blog parsing it up just to make a few bucks.

I wasn't actually thinking that you would do it manually.

I figured that you would spend 5 minutes writing an algo
that would do it in a loop.

$60 for 5 minutes equates to about $720/hour ...

Spoo

[penagate]

[wossname]

Inscribe it by hand using quill and ink in the dark, while drunk on mead and preferably in the 9th century.

[moti barski]

doesn't he have an rss feed for the updates ?

[kleinma]

Inscribe it by hand using quill and ink in the dark, while drunk on mead and preferably in the 9th century.

Well if I am going to do that, I might as well use stone tablets (not stone iPads) and chisel the blog into those. Then I can walk down from the mountain to present it.

[Andrew G]

Using the Web Developer toolbar on firefox, dissable all CSS and it'll get rid of all the margins, select the important stuff you need and then print > selection.

Depending on the blog you'll either get a mess or something good. Alternatively you can just edit the CSS.

[wossname]

Well if I am going to do that, I might as well use stone tablets (not stone iPads) and chisel the blog into those. Then I can walk down from the mountain to present it.

Well, now you're just being a silly billy.

[Nightwalker83]

Someone asked me to print out some webpages for them that are rather long on the Y axis. They are from a blog of this persons kid while they were away for the summer over seas, and they want to preserve it on paper. They want it printed on 8.5x11 paper to put in a binder.

Going from experience just printing the blog probably won't turn out that well. I found this while searching though, thought it might be useful.