A rather annoying situation has begun to occur, it seems to me, in that there are more and more web pages with information on them that:
a) will not let one "copy and paste" the text into a word processor, what one gets in the paste is a link to the page instead of the text.
b) does not have a print function
c) when one tries to print from the browser one gets the whole page with many, many adverts and takes five pages to print one page of text
d) However, one can twitter it, favourite it, send it by e-mail or any of a myriad of "social" things, but one cannot "just print it". They even have a "register with facebook", and you can be sure that they will figure out a way to send stuff sent to the facebook account. One can also just 'register" but one then gets the spam because of the confirmation e-mail.
so.
Here is a rather tedious but workable solution.
1) When one drags to select do not "cross a frame/junction" when selecting to copy. That means, that since they have broken the text up into a bunch of boxes with adverts in between them, and to the sides, that you will have to carefully copy, from the top down, not the bottom up, the text in a "frame" and paste that block of text one block at a time into your word processor.
2) Paste using the edit function not with a "right click", One has to paste using "paste special".
3) A dialog box will open with the "paste special", choose "unformatted text".
4) One then gets the unformatted text AND the link back to the website but one just deletes the link.
Of course, the "justification" for this is, I am sure, that they are worried that you will copy and paste it into your website and use it to make gazillions of dollars while they do not. Of course I realize that you are not going to do that, but just to remind you.....it is perfectly legal, in the United States, to copy material such as a recipe, for one's own, private use.
This whole "driving people to facebook" thing is getting really irritating.
If anyone has questions please ask.
woodsmoke
a) will not let one "copy and paste" the text into a word processor, what one gets in the paste is a link to the page instead of the text.
b) does not have a print function
c) when one tries to print from the browser one gets the whole page with many, many adverts and takes five pages to print one page of text
d) However, one can twitter it, favourite it, send it by e-mail or any of a myriad of "social" things, but one cannot "just print it". They even have a "register with facebook", and you can be sure that they will figure out a way to send stuff sent to the facebook account. One can also just 'register" but one then gets the spam because of the confirmation e-mail.
so.
Here is a rather tedious but workable solution.
1) When one drags to select do not "cross a frame/junction" when selecting to copy. That means, that since they have broken the text up into a bunch of boxes with adverts in between them, and to the sides, that you will have to carefully copy, from the top down, not the bottom up, the text in a "frame" and paste that block of text one block at a time into your word processor.
2) Paste using the edit function not with a "right click", One has to paste using "paste special".
3) A dialog box will open with the "paste special", choose "unformatted text".
4) One then gets the unformatted text AND the link back to the website but one just deletes the link.
Of course, the "justification" for this is, I am sure, that they are worried that you will copy and paste it into your website and use it to make gazillions of dollars while they do not. Of course I realize that you are not going to do that, but just to remind you.....it is perfectly legal, in the United States, to copy material such as a recipe, for one's own, private use.
This whole "driving people to facebook" thing is getting really irritating.
If anyone has questions please ask.
woodsmoke
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