Can you explain what "It looks like crap" actually means to you?
That linked pdf looks sharp to me, and at full screen, the one picture in that page is quite sharp, with good focus. The text in the article has slight anti-aliasing, but still pretty sharp, and is completely readable -- but, it's still a saved copy of the reader view. Some folks don't care for the reader view option, but that copy seems OK, no real issues - plus the links work!
Just like you take a photograph to capture a moment in time, I have the same need/want for web pages.
If you took a picture of your daughter accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, would it be enough that the photo captured her smiling with no context of the medal? Or how about the final photo of what appears to be a medal, but her not in the frame?
Well, I feel the same way about what I am trying to capture for *my* needs. (And as you can see, it gets on my nerves when I have to justify what I want...)
If my goal is to learn a new web design technique, and I feel inspired by today's cover of the Washington Post, then how is having all of the text from the headlines going to help me out?
Or in that Oklahoma article, how does that help me out when it chops off all of the additional articles in the right margin that I may have also been interested in?
They open up a bit blurry, for me. I guess you just need the text in the articles? (And, I also have the other disadvantage of a png file - links can't be used from that file...)
No, I need EVERYTHING from the original webpage AS-IS.
I want the page layout, text, pictures, graphics, etc to be EXACTLY as the original.
For the past 20 years that required a File > Save Page As in any web browser and you were golden.
Then all of the wannabe web designers of the world forgot how to code web pages, and made pages Javascript only, and you have the problem I now face.
Websites like the Washington Post, also go out of their way to keep *paying* customers from me from saving articles - for my own later use - via technology. (Often I save a page, open it up to make sure it looks okay, then go back to it a ween later and get a blank page?! And unless you edit the code and strip out the Javascipt that is all you will see - nothing?!)
I have a program I wrote which does a decent job saving web pages (text, photos, and all), but usually the page layout gets f***ed up still, so I take a screenshot so I have a "pixel perfect" copy of things as well.
Of course, it is a pain in the ass to read articles/web pages from a .png/.jog file as far as navigation goes. THUS the question in my OP!
In summary, if this problem had a simple solution we wouldn't be talking.
And pardon me,
@revmacian for getting pissy, but nothing torques me more when people walk into a complex situation and start implying that I don't understand the problem, and that the solution is simple.
(I'm sure that is NOT what he intended, but it hit a nerve with me.)
If there is one thing that is constant, it is how humans F*** UP the world in which we live. From the gov't to the economy to the climate, humans break everything. And now people like me have no easy way to save web articles for later consumption in their original format and on their own computers, and that is so ANTI-Internet it isn't funny, but whatever?!
Oh, scrolling up and down your file works just fine. I'm using a mouse for that.
No, it DOESN'T work just fine, because I am on a laptop and the minute I have to take me figrs off of my keyboard to do something, then it is an inconvenience.
That and the trackpad on this old Mac is about dead, and trying to click on the vertical scroll bar, and navigate forward ne page is a real PITA when I am reading a 50 "page" document!!
There's no lag for me in normal scrolling. I have "Home" and "End" keys on my keyboard, and those take me immediately to the top or bottom, respectively, on your PNG file when I have it open in a browser such as Firefox. Maybe your Firefox has a setting that inhibits scrolling within images (I'm just trying to get a grasp on the problem as you describe it (?) )
If I hold down the Down-Arrow, the article s-l-o-w-l-y scrolls down.
What I want is something equivalent to "Page Down" so it make a larger jump. Is there no keyboard shortcut for that?? (Obviously that is a non-issue on a regualr webpage or in a PDF, but alas, I can't have WYSIWYG + scrollable text all in one document from over a year of trying to fix this issue!!
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So, ignoring the "crap" aspect...just convert your image to a pdf. Then you can scroll up and down at will.
Most of the articles I save look more like magazine articles than newspaper articles.
The point?
If you strip out the photos and the page layout, you have just lost over 50% of the content of the article.
For instance, how could anyone understand an article about Syria or Russia or China if you had never been there, and all you had was text?
Also, how can you understand an indepth analysis on the Stock Market or cryptocurrencies or genetic engineering without all of the graphics and charts and illustartions? You can't!
So I usually choose to read the .png version of articles so I get 100% of the info.
And all I am asking for is a slightly easier way to scroll through the document without needing to use my stuck Trackpad or buy a mouse and have to lift my right hand to navigate when I want to just use keystrokes...
[doublepost=1546029570][/doublepost]@chbig,
I misread what you said... Converting the .png to a .pdf is a nice idea, but doesn't work in application.
You try zooming in on a 20 page article that was saved as a .jpg and see how it looks?!
