X-Message-Number: 17342 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 05:13:48 -0400 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Tips for copying difficult to copy articles References: <> CryoNet wrote: > Message #17332 > From: "Bryan Hall" <> > Subject: Protein protecting freezing tissues is synthesised > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:39:24 -0700 <snip> > Full story from New Scientist: > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991176 Several people posted different sources for the news about the new antifreeze. BTW, thanks everyone for doing so. I happen to like copying various articles to a text file to keep for my own records and for purpose of evangelizing rational technical immortality. I've found that some websites don't want you copying and have put up barriers. New Scientist at least appears to have this policy. I believe in freedom of information but do respect copyright law and would never plagiarize as it would make an instant mockery of me and profound loss of face. So what to do if I want for my own innocent purposes a permanent record? After all websites tend to go off line and their archives can be hell to find or if they have gone defunct damn well impossible. One way is to press ctrl+print screen if the page covers the entire desktop or alt+print screen will copy an image to the Windows "Clipboard" of the top most window only. The one simply opens Windows' built in "Paint" program and since a new empty image is the default simply go to 'edit' and choose 'paste'. A not may come up saying it's too large and should it adjust, say yes and you have a capture file of your desktop contents. Save as either a bit map or jpeg image. However, this will likely only get part of the article as more will be further down the page and not visible. To get everything might require several image files and an even more complicated process of stitching them together in various ways I won't even attempt to get into. SOLUTION: (Caveat: I only know what works for Netscape Communicator) At least for New Scientist I have found a way around the barriers. With the above URL as an example, first click and go to the article. Note the title and then remove all the URL back to only http://www.newscientist.com and hit enter. At the home screen now find the article's title and locate the hyper link portion and right click then choose "Open Link in Composer". Composer will come up with a GUI (graphical user interface) representation of the article with frames and titles and the main article arranged in blocks. Find the text you want and highlight only it and choose 'copy' from the 'edit' menu or right click and choose 'copy'. This is important. If you try to get everything including dates and etc., that are often separate from the main body, you will get an error message saying "blah blah can't be deleted or copied". Try to get only the main body even if you have to take it in paragraphed chunks. You may need to leave off the very first and very last letters because for some reason, and I accidentally discovered this, the entire body or title is tagged with the barrier but not the text within/between the first and last letters. Example: From the above URL's article copying the entire title "Protein protecting freezing tissues is synthesised" elicits the warning but choosing only "rotein protecting freezing tissues is synthesise", does not. Now paste your ill gotten gains to a text (Notepad) or document (MS Word) file. Disclaimer: The above information is not meant to aid anyone in cheating subscriptioned websites or circumventing legitimate copyrights and is intended solely for the private use of individuals in a society where information should be free as well as so should speech. Hope this helps. James -- From the point of ignition To the final drive The point of the journey is not to arrive --RUSH Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17342