Saving Wizards pages for Offline reading

[Urklore]

I have an odd question, but it is RPG related. I frequently save favorite posts from this board as .mht files for offline reading, etc. For some reason on Wizards boards I cannot save any of there pages as an offline archive. I get a cannot be saved to the selected location. I have tried different systems with different OS, tried machines at the work office as well. Still with no luck. Has anyone else had any problems saving pages on the Wizards boards as web archive files?

 

[Imhotepthewise]

I click the show as printable file and save them as text documents, to save room, since I save a lot of posts. I do the same with enworld posts. I have a somewhat elaborate file naming routine which I will share if anyone cares to know it.

 

[Urklore]

I would! Inquirying minds want to know.

 

[Imhotepthewise]

OK. On both boards you take an interesting thread and click to show the printable view. Sometimes you will have to click show all pages at once option. I use Internet Explorer, so that is the routine I'll describe. Then File - Save As - Select text for type and save it. Then, in Windows Explore, take the huge tag it got from the board and Rename it.

For EN World Threads, I use "enw*.txt"
examples: "enwdndhelpwithgladiatorstylecampaign031303am.txt"
031303am being today in the morning, of course
"enwd20modmartialartsind20_031303am.txt"

for Wizos: I use "wotc*.txt" with the same kind of breakdown.
"wotcswrpgwhataboutwookies031303am.txt"
I have used this pattern for over 2 years now and have hundreds of threads saved. It has been pretty easy to find them. I sort them out by game system and story hours and opinion and discussion. There are ways to save the html view but it is space intensive and I am an old DOS head and paranoid about saving hard disk space.

Enjoy. Your mileage may vary.

 

[Drawmack]

they might set their pages to nocache which should stop you from saving it locally.

 

[gariig]

Try here I'm going to poke through these soon.

Gariig

 

[kengar]

Not to invoke an OS debate, but in the new Mac OS X (Jaguar), one of the standard options is to print to PDF. I did this with the printable views of the "Gamestoppers" series and use them for DM/player references re: oddball rules.

 

[jaults]

they might set their pages to nocache which should stop you from saving it locally.

    And in fact, that does seem to be the problem. However, the print-friendly view (link at the bottom of the page) does not have this META tag, so you can save it off as an MHT file with no problem.

    Jason

 

[Chris Tavares]

If you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, print the pages to PDF files. It works great for me. Also, you can use Acrobat to capture entire web sites and store the whole thing in a pdf.