First published at 00:44 UTC on December 26th, 2020.
When we as members of the public want to hold our institutions and leaders accountable for their actions and public statements, or we simply want to preserve important information from the web before it disappears, or is "disappeared".
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When we as members of the public want to hold our institutions and leaders accountable for their actions and public statements, or we simply want to preserve important information from the web before it disappears, or is "disappeared".
We need to preserve and store those web pages offline in an easily transportable and accessible format that can be saved to disk or USB drive as a regular standalone file, that can be e-mailed and even be printed to paper if needed.
Simply saving an internet shortcut to the web page or copying and pasting a link into an e-mail is not good enough, because of the increasingly ephemeral nature of the internet.
This video tutorial will show you how to save web pages as PDF documents to make effective offline archives of web pages.
These saved PDF files will have copy- able and searchable text, and have preserved embedded hyperlinks that can be clicked from the PDF document, to open the corresponding web page in your web browser.
We will go over best practices and learn how to scale the web image so that it fits best on the PDF page, and how to remove unwanted elements from the page like advertising and pop up windows, and also add comments, stamps and our own hyperlinks to the page.
Also includes Software Recommendations.
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