- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:56:26 -0600
- To: Bob Futrelle <bob.futrelle@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
>I didn't just say 'only', I also said, "for many purposes". > >If you know of an automated way to take 30 *separate* web pages and >turn them into a single PDF, I'd like to know about it. Yes, that is the key point. I had the same immediate reaction as Xiaoshu, but then I went and actually tried to print out TimBL's SW2004 slidyshow as a single document. I couldn't find any way to do it. It is most frustrating: all the slide contents and formattings are actually specified there in the HTML source, but if you attempt to print it (even when using an HTML editor like GoLive), you only get one of the slides, at best. So, here is a suggested Principle of Good Practice for browsers: anything that can be rendered on the screen by processing a single source document, should be printable by a single command. Maybe it will be a mess, needing some work to organize; but at least it will be on paper, so you can stuff it all into your pocket and sort it out later on the beach. Pat Hayes >- Bob > >On 1/27/06, wangxiao <wangxiao@musc.edu> wrote: >> >> > The only good document, for many purposes, is one that can be >> > printed out in a reasonably compact form and then read, with >> > no computer or web (!) connection, in a coffee shop or on the >> > beach (some months from now here in the North). But as I >> > look for documents explaining the Semantic Web, I keep >> > finding collections of 20 or 30 web pages each, each page of >> > which has to be printed separately. Slidy seems to have the >> > same problem, and I've inquired separately about that. Most >> > mags and newspapers offer "printer-friendly" versions of >> > multi-page docs. >> >> I would be careful about the "only". :-) >> >> I think it is made as webs document intensionally. After all, what W3C >> wants is to get people used to web. If people wants to get it in some other >> form, it is not difficult to do so with some software. For instance, you >> can easily create a PDF out of the web document and do whatever you are >> confortable with it later. >> >> Xiaoshu >> >> >> > > >-- >Robert P. Futrelle > Associate Professor >Biological Knowledge Laboratory >College of Computer and Information Science >Northeastern University MS WVH202 >360 Huntington Ave. >Boston, MA 02115 > >Office: (617)-373-4239 >Fax: (617)-373-5121 >http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle >http://www.bionlp.org >http://www.diagrams.org >http://biologicalknowledge.com -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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