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All I need is a good web clipper like evernote's Clearly, so that I can directly save cleaned webpage to a .doc file in a Dropbox folder. Still can't find one.

by xname2 11y ago

All I need is a good web clipper like evernote's Clearly, so that I can directly save cleaned webpage to a .doc file in a Dropbox folder. Still can't find one. Also, why dropbox does not create a simple note taking app, just save notes to a dropbox folder?

on_ 11y ago
If you don't need it to be a .doc, Google chrome allows you to save webpages to PDFs just by going to file > print[0] and it works quite well. The Evernote clipper worked pretty well IIRC, but either way you will have to edit the markup a bit to get the results on a very cluttered page. In a pinch though, chrome does a great job if you don't want to have evernote simply to clip pages. [0]http://www.labnol.org/software/save-web-page-as-pdf/21153/ http://www.labnol.org/software/save-web-page-as-pdf/21153/
- arethuza 11y ago
  Word allows you to open PDFs - so it can be edited and saved as anything you want.
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  I generally avoid Chrome, but I'll give that a try. I hope it works better than my experiences with both Safari and Firefox on OS X. Those browsers have long supported what is mentioned in your linked article: File -> Print -> PDF -> Save as PDF However, it's very hit-and-miss of what results you'll get. About 80% of pages come out fine, but the remainder can be quite awful. And it's unpredictable which browser will do better on any given page. At the least, you'd expect results to match printing to paper, but sometimes even that doesn't happen. Safari has a Reader View that produces good results, but I don't think very many websites support it. Unfortunately, certain websites go out of they way to prevent us from saving them to PDF.
blumkvist 11y ago
MS Edge does this and saves to onedrive.
- xname2 11y ago
  It saves webpage / clip as a picture. Really not what I want.
rsl7 11y ago
because there are plenty of note taking / writing apps that use dropbox directly?

by xname2 11y ago

on_ 11y ago

If you don't need it to be a .doc, Google chrome allows you to save webpages to PDFs just by going to file > print[0] and it works quite well. The Evernote clipper worked pretty well IIRC, but either way you will have to edit the markup a bit to get the results on a very cluttered page. In a pinch though, chrome does a great job if you don't want to have evernote simply to clip pages. [0]http://www.labnol.org/software/save-web-page-as-pdf/21153/ http://www.labnol.org/software/save-web-page-as-pdf/21153/

arethuza 11y ago
Word allows you to open PDFs - so it can be edited and saved as anything you want.
PhantomGremlin 11y ago
I generally avoid Chrome, but I'll give that a try. I hope it works better than my experiences with both Safari and Firefox on OS X. Those browsers have long supported what is mentioned in your linked article: File -> Print -> PDF -> Save as PDF However, it's very hit-and-miss of what results you'll get. About 80% of pages come out fine, but the remainder can be quite awful. And it's unpredictable which browser will do better on any given page. At the least, you'd expect results to match printing to paper, but sometimes even that doesn't happen. Safari has a Reader View that produces good results, but I don't think very many websites support it. Unfortunately, certain websites go out of they way to prevent us from saving them to PDF.

blumkvist 11y ago

MS Edge does this and saves to onedrive.

xname2 11y ago
It saves webpage / clip as a picture. Really not what I want.

rsl7 11y ago

because there are plenty of note taking / writing apps that use dropbox directly?