Comments | gnatkip: How do you print fics?

gnatkip

How do you print fics?

Aug 14, 2007 16:46

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 ( Read more... )

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ratcreature August 14 2007, 22:03:44 UTC

I have the same problem and no solution. I don't really print fic anymore (though I used to), but I like to transfer stuff to my ancient PDA sometimes, and that's just much easier with a single file. That's why I like the newer efiction archives that give you a print button that has the complete story as an option rather than just displaying the chapters.

gnatkip August 14 2007, 22:15:29 UTC

the newer efiction archives that give you a print button that has the complete story as an option

That is a great option! I haven't seen that, but then I only rarely visit archives. I do most of my reading on LJ these days.

ratcreature August 14 2007, 22:42:31 UTC

I like reading longer stories on archives rather than LJ. I was really thrilled when efiction sites started to have this. Previously I thought the print button was pretty useless. Okay, it resulted in a plainer formatting, but who wants to print twenty chapters seperately? Now you can get it all as one file, and it has internal navigation links, so that you can still stop at the chapter breaks, close the document and find your place without scrolling or searching. It's much easier to just safe your favorite stories too, even if you don't want to transfer or print it.

gnatkip August 15 2007, 02:42:22 UTC

Heh, I just went and found an archive running it, just so I could check it out. And it's a very useful feature, yes!

I've been toying with the idea of getting a used PDA solely to read fic and ebooks on, but I haven't really looked into it much. Glad to hear it is a possibility.

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yourlibrarian August 14 2007, 23:33:01 UTC

Please post about what you think of the Downloader. I read everything online myself but I think others would be interested in hearing what works best.

gnatkip August 15 2007, 02:14:47 UTC

Ok, I may try it. Especially now that I realized there's an English version of the website. At first I was thinking, oh no, my German's not good enough for me to tell if this is a good idea or not.

dbassassin August 15 2007, 00:33:33 UTC

I copy and paste to an OpenOffice template, then either print or read on my computer (but off-line).

I'll try DownloadStory; it's hard to find more specialised products for Mac that are decent.

gnatkip August 15 2007, 01:02:27 UTC

Yay for OpenOffice.

Oh, for what it's worth, I should tell you that the way I found DownloadStory was from this article which says it stopped working.

dbassassin August 15 2007, 03:16:52 UTC

I'm starting to think that's the norm for Mac applications. Someone gets the idea, throws together a beta version, and abandons it.

And yay for OpenOffice, indeed. I just wish they'd get their rears in gear with the Aqua already. X11 gives me gyp, let me tell you (though I still much prefer O-o on a PC). And I really wish they had a proper graphics component. O-oDraw is suckysucky.