Very often when we browse the net,we will come across some information that we may want to save and print it out for reference. The easiest way of course will be to cut and paste it (CTRL+A then CTRL+V) to a word processor or a text editor. The problem with this method is sometimes it doesn’t format it the way it is from the browser. So you will need to find another way.
Print Screen –Pressing the print screen button will capture whatever in your screen to a clipboard and you can paste it to other application. If you only required specific window,you can press ALT+print screen to only capture the active window. Then you paste it to a word processor or any graphic programs. The image captured will be exactly the same as you view it on screen. The problem with this method is,if your document is more than one page,you will need to capture it several times (page by page) and combine it later for printing. It can be time consuming,if the web page is long.
Save as *.MHT –This is saving the webpage into a single archive file. it only save the necessary information for future viewing. You will still required to have internet access in order to view the content of the files in future. This is only recommended if you are always connected and uses only IE.
Save as HTML (complete) –This option will allow you to save all the web pages and also the images required to view it locally. You do not need to have a internet access to view it in future. This option will use up additional storage space to store the text and images.
A better solution will be using the print engine to generate a single file document such as below.
Print to Microsoft XPS Document Writer –The XPS Document Writer allows you to create .xps files using any program that you run on Windows. You can view them on any computer where an XPS viewer is installed. How to use this writer,you may find it in here. Learn more about XPS viewer here.
Print to PDF –Another popular way of saving your webpage into a document is by printing it to a PDF writer. There are several freeware and open source PDF writer that you can download for free,you may refer to our previous post here. Print to PDF is easy,once you have the software installed,you can simply print anything to PDF just like you print to printer. Print to PDF is highly recommended because it can be view on not only windows system,but Mac,Linux and any other that have a PDF viewer.
If you have any other ideas,we welcome you to share with us here..
