Prohibition to print an entire webpage?

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I bought a one month subscription to a service that explains how to get
discount tickets to various NY City shows. Most of this information will be
the same from month to month so I don't want to waste money on an annual
subscription but I would like to print either a hard copy or a PDF file of
the information that I have legitimately paid for. But it will only print
the first page and on the very bottom the type just kind of runs off the
page like the printer was expecting a single sheet of paper 10 feet long or
something. Any ideas? Thanks.
 
After I wrote this I found a workaround: Copy & paste into an email that I
sent to myself and then printed and saved it as a PDF. But I'm still
interested to know if there is a software to overcome this in the future.
Thanks, everyone.
 
GuessWho said:
I bought a one month subscription to a service that explains how to get
discount tickets to various NY City shows. Most of this information will
be the same from month to month so I don't want to waste money on an annual
subscription but I would like to print either a hard copy or a PDF file of
the information that I have legitimately paid for. But it will only print
the first page and on the very bottom the type just kind of runs off the
page like the printer was expecting a single sheet of paper 10 feet long or
something. Any ideas? Thanks.
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I'm not sure whether this is relevant to your problem or not. Sometimes a
page turns up which cannot be downloaded. This can be circumvented by using
Unipage Unifier.

http://unipage.org/

It works ok with IE, but you may have to use Firefox or Netscape to view the
"unified page". Incidentally, you might try a different browser which might
overcome the problem without recourse to Unipage Unifier, although it's a
program worth having.

An alternative suggestion is to save as a text file, either directly from
the webpage or from the source (right-click > view source). It might be a
bit garbled but should have the information you need. Incidentally, if the
website prohibits right-clicking get a favelet (same thing as a bookmarklet)
to overcome this from:

http://www.codehouse.com/javascript/favelets/anti_no_right_click

<quote> Anti No Right Click Favelet. This website's menu was created
visually using Visual Menu. Anti No Right Click is a favelet that prevents
web pages from disabling right-mouse clicking. /quote>

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Frank Bohan
¶ Start a new movement - eat prunes.
 
After I wrote this I found a workaround: Copy & paste into an email
that I sent to myself and then printed and saved it as a PDF. But
I'm still interested to know if there is a software to overcome
this in the future. Thanks, everyone.
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Often happens if the author assumed a different browser to yours.
 
GuessWho said:
After I wrote this I found a workaround: Copy & paste into an email that I
sent to myself and then printed and saved it as a PDF. But I'm still
interested to know if there is a software to overcome this in the future.
Thanks, everyone.
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I'm actually currently working on a desktop version of my vURL service which
will allow you to do this.

In the meantime, if it helps at all, I wrote the following script for a
friend a few days ago that will allow you to save a website's source code.

Filename: vbsSimplevURL.vbs
Size: 5K
Language: VBScript

http://downloads.mysteryfcm.co.uk/?f=Scripts

Requires:

- Windows Scripting Host (WSH) 5.6 or newer
- MSXML 4 or newer

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
I'm not sure whether this is relevant to your problem or not. Sometimes a
page turns up which cannot be downloaded. This can be circumvented by using
Unipage Unifier.

http://unipage.org/

It works ok with IE, but you may have to use Firefox or Netscape to view the
"unified page". Incidentally, you might try a different browser which might
overcome the problem without recourse to Unipage Unifier, although it's a
program worth having.

An alternative suggestion is to save as a text file, either directly from
the webpage or from the source (right-click > view source). It might be a
bit garbled but should have the information you need. Incidentally, if the
website prohibits right-clicking get a favelet (same thing as a bookmarklet)
to overcome this from:

http://www.codehouse.com/javascript/favelets/anti_no_right_click

<quote> Anti No Right Click Favelet. This website's menu was created
visually using Visual Menu. Anti No Right Click is a favelet that prevents
web pages from disabling right-mouse clicking. /quote>
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Isn't there a Firefox extension that does that, too? I know I have
seen one, but I can't find it now (but would like to).

Dan
 
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