Touch Up a Website for Printing with OpenOffice.org
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Here’s a cool tip that I kind of chanced upon this week: use OpenOffice.org as a quick and easy html editor to prepare websites for printing. Not very many people realize this, but OOo makes a pretty darn good GUI for editing HTML. Yeah…sounds crazy, but it’s true. Say you’re using a worksheet, form, or article from online source, but you just need that graphic to be a bit smaller, or you’d really like to take out a paragraph or two. Heck, you just want to quickly add some of your own material before you hand it out at the meeting.
Well, all you need to do is navigate to the site in Firefox, and click File –> Save Page As. Make sure you select “Web Page, Complete” as the file type (it should be the default option). Next find the file you downloaded and open it OpenOffice.org…it should appear in with some specialized “web editing” tools.
Add, delete, and edit to your heart’s content…then click on View –> Print Layout to see how it will look on the page. As an added bonus, you can even check out the HTML code right there from View menu as well.
Now you’re done and ready to print your edited web page!
PS Don’t forget you can easily export to PDF as well with OpenOffice.org. Have fun! Do you use OpenOffice.org to edit HTML?
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What a coincidence. I found this out quite by accident, but it’s a problem. When I want to “View Document Source” in konqueror, konqueror will now launch OO, rather than provide a text view of the HTML. I like konqueror, OO, but not in this arrangement. Nor can I find out how to get back to simply viewing the source. I would love to get konqueror back to viewing source as text.
I fired up Konqueror to see if I could get it to open the source in OpenOffice.org, but I couldn’t figure out how to get it do that in the first place! There’s gotta be a hidden setting somewhere or something.
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