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Re: capturing websites



I have found that pdf files do not capture web pages properly if java or
javascript is used.  Have you had this problem?

Alex Pezzati
Interim Senior Archivist
University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives
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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324

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At 09:37 AM 3/15/01 -0500, Joan Lowe wrote:
>We save the files as pdf for three reasons: Number one, because it gives us
>an exact replica of the page including the graphics, which we wouldn't get
>unless we also saved each individual graphic file in the same directory. Our
>optical storage media (like all that I know about) does not store files in
>directories but rather scattered throughout the media, so we could not
>retrieve these files satisfactorily. The html can certainly be fetched, but
>we will get only the text and no graphics. Since it is, after all, a web
>page, the graphics are important. The second reason is, because pdf is what
>we use when we email simple requests -- nice, neat, photo clear image in a
>portable document file -- MUCH smaller than a jpeg file -- and we send
>only one pdf file, pdq, rather than 5 or 10 or more graphical files and an
>html. The reader is free and readily accessible to whoever wants it.
>
>Joan Lowe
>American Friends Service Committee
>Philadelphia, PA  19102
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