How do you print fics?
I guess I should preface this by saying that I occasionally read at the pit. What. I see recs. There's some good stuff there. Hush.
This is something I've just started doing in the last couple of months -- printing long fics to read offline. I made myself a little OpenOffice template to copy/paste stories into, to make for easy reading but to waste as little paper as possible. (Three columns, small text, thin margins, numbered pages.) That works well. But in the case of stories with lots of chapters, there's got to be an easier way than opening up and copy/pasting each chapter manually, right?
I googled and found some programs that save a copy of the story to your computer: De-FFNet-izer (Win & Mac), DownloadStory (Mac only), and Fanfiction Downloader (Win only, I think?) Of these, I believe that the last one is the only one that will save all chapters as one file. I haven't tried any of them.
But then I also found a web-based service, FicSavers.Com, that gives you a story in a zip file without having to install anything, although you do have to register. I tried it and it worked nicely, but I was still left with umpteen chapters to format and print individually. I understand that there's standalone software that will merge files, but if I'm going to have to install something new anyway, I might as well try Fanfiction Downloader.
I don't know. What's the best way you've found to do it? Or maybe you have a similar problem with reading on handhelds or phones?
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On a completely different note, I haven't yet issued my Statement of Emigration, mostly because the whole thing has me too exhausted to say more than this: I'm at JF, IJ, and GJ, but posting only here (LJ RSS) for now, and watching scribblit and fandom_flies. Where you lodge, I will lodge.
This is something I've just started doing in the last couple of months -- printing long fics to read offline. I made myself a little OpenOffice template to copy/paste stories into, to make for easy reading but to waste as little paper as possible. (Three columns, small text, thin margins, numbered pages.) That works well. But in the case of stories with lots of chapters, there's got to be an easier way than opening up and copy/pasting each chapter manually, right?
I googled and found some programs that save a copy of the story to your computer: De-FFNet-izer (Win & Mac), DownloadStory (Mac only), and Fanfiction Downloader (Win only, I think?) Of these, I believe that the last one is the only one that will save all chapters as one file. I haven't tried any of them.
But then I also found a web-based service, FicSavers.Com, that gives you a story in a zip file without having to install anything, although you do have to register. I tried it and it worked nicely, but I was still left with umpteen chapters to format and print individually. I understand that there's standalone software that will merge files, but if I'm going to have to install something new anyway, I might as well try Fanfiction Downloader.
I don't know. What's the best way you've found to do it? Or maybe you have a similar problem with reading on handhelds or phones?
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On a completely different note, I haven't yet issued my Statement of Emigration, mostly because the whole thing has me too exhausted to say more than this: I'm at JF, IJ, and GJ, but posting only here (LJ RSS) for now, and watching scribblit and fandom_flies. Where you lodge, I will lodge.