How to open a page without the Internet. Pocket is a dinosaur among delayed reading services

Hello dear blog readers. The Internet is full of a wide variety of information. With a little searching, you can find the answer to many, many questions. Often the information found is needed more than once and must be returned to again and again. Therefore, you must be aware of how to save a page from the Internet to a computer or laptop. This information is needed by users who want to save the page in order to view it on a device where there is no Internet.

To do this, you can save the address useful page, in a separate text file or bookmark your Internet browser. But this option has a couple of disadvantages. First, to access information, it must be downloaded from the Internet again each time. And second, the site administrator may consider the information useful to you unnecessary, thereby deleting it or moving it to the archive.
The solution to this problem is to save the site page to your computer.

Today we will look at how to do this correctly. You can, of course, simply select the text on the page, copy and save it to a file, for example using MS Word, Open Office or others text editors. But in this case, only the text itself will be copied, its formatting will be lost, and the pictures in the text may not be copied immediately with the text.

Save page in different browsers

To save data in the form in which they are presented on the site, you need to save the entire web page. To understand that the page in the browser was loaded not from the Internet, but from the local hard drive, you need to look at the address bar in your browser. In the case of a saved page, it will contain an address like this: “file:///[path to your file]”. Next in order.
To do this in the browser Internet Explorer you need to be on the desired page and do one of the following: next steps. Click the menu “File” - “Save As”, or on the right side of the screen select “Page” - “Save As”, or press the key combination “Ctrl” + “S”.

Useful: in new versions of browsers top panel hidden, to activate it, press the “ALT” button.
In the window that appears, you need to select a location on your hard drive to save the file.
In this window you also need to select the type of the received file. Let's consider the possible options.

Full web page. The result of saving in this type will be a file containing the page text and HTML code, plus a folder with pictures.

Web page, HTML only. The result will be similar to the previous one, only without pictures.

Text file. As a result of saving, you will receive a simple text file in an inconvenient form for reading, which will contain all the HTML code and text available on the page.

Web archive is the most convenient option. The output will be a single file containing everything. When you double click on such a file, a browser will open and you will see the saved page in it. original form, it will be loaded from your computer’s hard drive.

IN Opera browser To save the page you need to click on the “Opera” button on the left top corner window, select “Page” - “Save Page”, or use the “File” menu or press the above key combination. Type options final file the same as in the previous case.
If you are using a browser Mozilla Firefox, then everything is similar to the previous case. In the browser Google Chrome The keyboard shortcut also works, but if you use mouse buttons, click “Settings and Google management Chrome" in the upper right side of the window, and select "Save Page As" from the menu. Another difference in Google Chrome is the lack of a file type for saving “Text Document” and “Web Archive”.

Hello, friends!
Today I will tell you how to view Internet resources in the Google Chrome browser without connecting to the Internet.

When you visit any page on the Internet, your browser stores a copy of it in a cache on HDD.
How to display this copy if you are offline?

As a rule, when we need to look at information of interest on the Internet, the browser makes a request to the server and only then downloads the contents of a specific page. If there is no Internet connection, then we will see standard message, What this page cannot be displayed.

It’s especially offensive if you are currently working with this page, but because unstable connection The connection to the Network has been interrupted, and the work needs to be completed. Since we visited this page before, its contents are already stored in the cache. All that remains is to extract it.

There is a fairly simple solution to this problem, and now using an example Google browser Chrome, I'll show you how to retrieve and display the contents of previously visited pages, even without an Internet connection.

To do this we will need to contact special page browser with experimental settings. Launch Google Chrome and address bar browser enter next command: chrome://flags/ . Press Enter.

Among the many settings you need to find the following items:

1. “Enable autoloading of pages not loaded offline.” Activate this option.
2. “Add an “Open saved copy” button.” Here you need to set the value “make secondary”.

Now, if the connection is lost or you are working offline, when viewing previously visited pages, you will see a “Web page unavailable” message in the background new button"Open a saved copy."

When you click on this button the existing copy will be loaded, which was saved on your hard drive when previous visit this resource.

Usually the local copy is not much different from the original. The exception is for pages with a complex structure, for example, if there is embedded video and other multimedia content. Of course that this type no content will be shown.

To return the original parameters, there is a corresponding option on the experimental settings page, which is located in the upper right corner. It’s called “Restore Default Settings”.

By the way, did you know that if you press the spacebar in the absence of an Internet connection, the dinosaur will run? And here is the proof!)

That's all for now. Thank you for your attention. I hope this was helpful. See you in new articles!

For example, on the Internet you found a recipe for an interesting dish with photographs and detailed instructions, an article on some issue that is important to you, instructions for the program. Of course, in Word program such a document will be very inconvenient to read, since it is impossible to convey the formatting. In this case, you need to use the “Save Web Page” option. This feature is available in all popular browsers, and it is this feature that allows you to save web documents.

At the very top of the browser window you will find a menu button with the Opera logo. Find the "Page" line and select additional menu“Save as...” item. A small window appears that prompts you to select a path to save the file. For example, if you want to save information to a folder on your desktop, you need to find “Desktop”, select the one you are interested in or create a new one. Pay attention to the "File Name". The title of the document will be indicated here. Enter a new one or use the one that was automatically suggested. An important point is the file type. It is best to select "Web Archive". This format is the most convenient. All you have to do is click on the “Save” button and check availability specified folder information.

You should have a menu bar at the top of your browser. If it is not there, then click on the gray field. A list should appear from which you need to select “Menu Bar”. Select “File” and then “Save As” or simply press the combination of Ctrl and S. In the window that appears, you will be prompted to select a folder to save the information. Change the file name if necessary and click on the “Save” button. The file type should be selected “Web archive” with mht extension.

At the top of the browser on the right side of the menu, find “File” and then the “Save As” line. Or you can, as in Internet Explorer, press the combination of Ctrl and S. A window will appear in which you should select a location for the file name and type. To save information, select the “Full Web Page” type. All that remains is to click on the “Save” button, and the information will be saved on your computer.

There are other ways to save browser pages, for example with an image. Perhaps the easiest way to save a page as a picture is to use the button on the keyboard Print Screen or "Prt Scr". It allows you to take a screenshot of the monitor and is available on any keyboard. To capture the screen, click on the button, then open it through the Start menu. Paint program from "Standard". Now click on the “Insert” button. A picture of the web page will appear in the file. All that remains is to save it. A significant disadvantage is that only the visible part of the document will remain.

There is also on the Internet special services, which are capable of automatically “photographing” the contents of a web document, that is, taking a screenshot. You need to find such a service, for example, it could be the thumbalizr.com service, enter the site URL and click on the “thumb it” button. Under you can select the “page” item, then the service will capture the entire page, or “screen”. In the second case, only the visible part of the page will be available. After scanning the site, the service will prompt you to select the size of the future image. Click on the “go” button and see the resulting image. Everything is very simple and convenient.

These are just a few of the most simple ways, how to save the page. All of them are quite simple and reliable, so you can easily cope. AND necessary information will always be at your fingertips, even if there is no network connection.

If you plan to continue reading a webpage offline or want to capture the current state of the content, you might want to save it.

To export a page with all its contents to the device’s memory, choose one of two formats: HTML or PDF. In the case of the first, it is saved as an HTML document and a folder with additional files. When you select PDF, you get a single document with all the content.

In most situations, it is more convenient to work with a PDF file. It can be annotated in special readers and is easier to share with other people.

Using a standard browser function

Many popular browsers allow you to save pages as PDF files through the print menu. Enter it while on the desired page using the combination Ctrl + P. After that, find the save to PDF function in the menu that opens and use it. The browser will not print anything, it will only save the PDF file on your computer.

Print menu in Google Chrome

This method is not without its drawbacks. Thus, web pages are often saved without links or with broken formatting. If this is critical for you, use any suitable web service.

In a special service

There are many sites on the Internet designed to save web pages as PDF files. Here are just a few of them: Webpage to PDF, Free HTML to PDF Converter, Pdfcrowd, “Online PDF Converter”, Online-Convert.

They all work almost the same way. Open any service, paste the link to the desired page into its text field and click on the download button. After this, the service will save the PDF file on the device.

Webpage to PDF service

The layout of pages converted in this way may differ from the original. But the basic formatting elements, as well as images and links, are preserved. In addition, such services can be used both on a computer and on a mobile device.

However, if you save in bookmarks not only regularly visited sites, but also one-day news or information that may or may not be useful later, then this section of the browser will become cluttered over time. And it will be difficult to find the necessary bookmarks in it.

There are many alternatives for saving one-time publications, for example:

• note services,
• delayed reading services,
• standard or built-in browser extensions for storing unused active tabs and sessions.

However, these methods are only good if you have access to the Internet. But there are solutions that allow you to store web pages on the local space of your computer, without the Internet - these are:

1. leave a “memory” page in the form HTML file or
2. save the web page as a PDF document.

I would like to talk about the second method in more detail.

1. Why you should save a web page as PDF

Save to PDF – the best way capture a web page as it appears in this moment, without any distortion.

This method can be used to, for example,

• record the social accounts of persons who can presumably delete important information from them.
• You can send statistical data from analytical resources to a PDF document.
• Even regular news publications can be saved in this file format to view them from mobile or other devices at a convenient time, but when there is no Internet.

When saving in PDF format, the contents of the web page are optimally distributed on a sheet with default parameters set to A4 with portrait orientation– for ease of viewing in reader programs. If necessary, the default parameters can be changed to others that are more suitable for the reader on a particular device.

How does saving a web page in PDF format differ from other options?

PDF is universal, its support is implemented on almost every device, in every operating system.

However, a web page can also be

• save in HTML,
• or from the page.

The PDF format outperforms the HTML format, first of all, due to its versatility and abundance of readers with different functionality.

And a PDF file differs from screenshots that can be taken from web pages in that it can then be converted into Text Document, if needed. It is known that conversion from PDF to text is not always possible. Therefore, it is worth using conversion methods that initially recognize textual material on sites as text. Such methods are given below for the Windows operating system.

2. Print in browsers to save in PDF format

Almost all web browsers (in other words, browsers) have their own built-in function for printing website pages. And as part of this function, it is possible to save to PDF.

2.1. PDF in Google Chrome

Rice. 1. Google menu Chrome (three vertical dots) – Print the open web page

• Click the menu “Setting and managing Goggle Chrome” (1 in Fig. 1);
• Click “Print” (2 in Fig. 1).

Then “Print” opens through the Google Chrome browser (Fig. 2):

Rice. 3. Click “Change” to find the “Save as PDF” option in the Google Chrome browser

The “Select Destination” dialog box will appear, in which you need to pay attention to the “Local Destinations” tab:

What can be changed in the Google Chrome browser to save as PDF?

If the web page is not displayed correctly in the preview window, you need to expand additional settings.

Rice. 5. Open additional Google settings Chrome to save to PDF

And set the scale to 100% or another, more appropriate for the publishing style of a particular web resource.

Rice. 6. Zoom and options for PDF format in the Chrome browser

2.2. PDF in the Microsoft Edge browser

In the operating room Windows system 10 there are even two such mechanisms:

1. described above (via Google Chrome browser) and
2. implemented with using Microsoft Print to PDF.

The second is the standard virtual printer of the system, and its task is to provide the ability to save as PDF in any web browser, in any program that allows printing.

It is believed that printing involving virtual printer creates a more informative version of the saved site page, displaying its metadata. Whereas the usual function of saving to PDF largely clears the page of unnecessary web elements and shifts the focus to the publication itself. Which is better is a matter for each individual case, but often both of these mechanisms work in exactly the same way.

How to use Microsoft Print to PDF? To do this, in Windows 10, open the built-in one, standard browser Microsoft Edge:

Rice. 7. Icon Microsoft browser Edge on Windows 10

Once you open Microsoft Edge, you need to

• in the “Options and more” menu (1 in Fig. 8)
• select “Print” (2 in Fig. 8):

Rice. 8. Print option in Microsoft Edge

If your computer is not using a real printer, then virtual PDF printer, as a rule, is installed by default.

Otherwise, click on the name of the connected printer. For an example, see Fig. below. 9, click on “HP LaserJet M1005”. A drop-down menu will open in which you select from the list available options print option “Microsoft Print to PDF”:

Rice. 9. Microsoft Edge menu where you can select a real printer or a link to “Microsoft Print to PDF”

In Microsoft Edge, by the way, the printing mechanism involving a PDF printer is optimally configured. Here, in particular, the default compression option is set to fit the size of the web page. If other parameters do not require correction, you can click “Print” at the bottom:

2.3. PDF in Mozilla Firefox browser

Optimal PDF printer settings also include on-board printing in Mozilla Firefox.

• Click the “Open menu” button (1 in Fig. 11),
• then – “Print” (2 in Fig. 11):

Rice. 11. “Open menu” – “Print” in Mozilla

In the “Print” window, you can set parameters for saving a web page as PDF (Fig. 12):

• number of pages required,
• scale,
• portrait or landscape orientation
• and very useful option“Simplify the page”, which removes extra elements navigation from a web page. As a result, the pdf document looks neat and tidy.

Rice. 12. Saving a page in PDF format using Mozilla

If in Mozilla, the “Print” option contains the name of the printer (in Fig. 13 it is HP LaserJet M1005), but there is no PDF, then you need

• click on the small triangle (1 in Fig. 13),
• Select PDF in the drop-down list (2 in Fig. 13).

Rice. 13. Search for PDF format in Mozilla

3. Two extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla

Non-standard browser functionality can save website pages into PDF documents with two advantages:

1. in one click and
2. with an automatically generated file name.

The latter, by the way, cannot be done by the standard, built-in printing function. IN Google stores Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have a lot of extensions for implementation in these browsers convenient way converting Internet pages to PDF, and the two proposed below are the most sensible of them.

Extensions are downloaded from official stores, then installed in the browser. As a result, an icon appears at the top of the browser toolbar installed extension. Then, if necessary, you can open a web page, click on the icon for such an extension and save the page as a PDF document on your device.

3.1. Extension PDF Mage

PDF Mage implements on the panel Chrome tools and a Firefox button that, when clicked, starts the process PDF creation from the contents of the current tab. The extension itself generates the file name in accordance with the title of the publication. Names are formed in Cyrillic.

If you install the PDF Mage extension in Google Chrome or Firefox browsers, the icon marked with number 1 in Fig. 14.

• open the browser, and there is a web page in it,
• click on the PDF Mage icon (1 in Fig. 14),
• look at where exactly, in which folder the pdf will be saved,
• Click “Save” (2 in Fig. 14).

Rice. 14. Save the web page using PDF extensions Mage in Google Chrome

3.2. Save as PDF extension

Save as PDF is similar to the previous extension. After installing it

• a button will also appear (Fig. 15) on the Chrome and Firefox toolbar,
• also works in one click,
• It also gives the files names in accordance with the titles of publications. But with the difference that the names are generated in Latin.

Rice. 15. Save as PDF extension in Mozilla for saving in PDF format

4. Three online services for saving to PDF

4.1. PDFcrowd.Com

The Save as PDF extension discussed above was developed by the creators of the PDFcrowd.Com web service. You can use the services of this service when working with browsers that provide for the installation of extensions.

The principle of working with the service is simple: paste the copied link to the Internet page into a special field, click “Convert to PDF” and indicate the path to save the file.

Rice. 16. PDFcrowd.Com service for saving as a pdf file

There are several web services similar to the one discussed above on the Internet, here are a couple more analogues.

4.2. Service PDFmyurl.Com

On the PDFmyurl.Com service website, insert the web page address into the center field and click “Save as PDF”.

Rice. 17. Online service PDFmyurl.Com saves the page at its address in a PDF file

The output file names are automatically generated in Latin.

4.3. Service Htm2PDF.Co.Uk

We do approximately the same thing when working with the Htm2PDF.Co.Uk web service: insert the address into the field in the center desired page, click “Convert!”, then “Download your PDF”.

Rice. 18. Online service Htm2PDF.Co.Uk saves it in PDF format at the page address

This service also generates file names itself, and also in Latin. It also has an extension for the Google Chrome browser, but it only works once in a while. The online service itself is more stable in this regard.

5. CTRL+P hotkeys for all PDFs in all browsers

To save a web page as a PDF, you can open it in any browser and press CTRL+P. Let me remind you how hotkeys work: first press CTRL key, then without releasing it, simultaneously press the P key (in English register). After this, the “Print” window should appear on the screen, similar to the one shown in Fig. 2.

If you have a printer connected to your computer, then in the “Print” window you will have to click on the “Change” button (Fig. 3), which is located next to the name of your printer. A menu will open (Fig. 4), in which you need to check the box next to “Save as PDF”.

This universal method with hot keys is good because it does not require installing additional software for the browser.

If you don’t like the option with hot keys, enter a query without quotes into a search engine like this:

• “save extension in PDF Opera” or
• “extension to save as PDF Yandex Browser”.

The search engine will offer you extensions; it is better to choose options from the official websites of the browsers. Installing the extension in the browser and further work with it are described; all extensions are designed according to a similar principle.