[WEB4LIB] Re: Anyone with any sense ought to know this - sending web pages

[Kylie Baxter]

Adobe Acrobat allows you to zip up web pages quite nicely and the person at the other end only needs Acrobat Reader to look at them, I think. There's a 
similar discussion going on at Free Pint (a UK-based LIS discussion forum) 
[http://www.freepint.com/bar/] but I couldn't find the exact thread today.

Kylie Baxter
Law School, University of Hull

At 04:22 17/07/2001 -0700, Erin P Donnelly wrote:
>Gary,
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>In the past I've just zipped the page and all supporting files using winzip
>and sent the file to our contractor who would then be able to unzip all
>files to a subdirectory and could see the page as it was meant to be
>displayed using his web browser.
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>Erin
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> Anyone with any sense
>                                               ought to know this - 
> sending web pages to o
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>                     07/17/2001 
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>                     GEM 
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>But since we are past the day when people take time to write a fine manual
>and there is not one to read, I am asking how to send a web page to someone
>else over email when it has frames and supporting files.  We are doing a
>set
>of pages so that our clients can use Dialog Select and for an opening page
>I
>have revised their "frame page" (no script).  Of course when I send it the
>supporting images and text do not go along and they get a lot of "The page
>can not be displayed."  Do you save the page to a file, then send the whole
>folder?  Or is there a "trick?"
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>Thanks,
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>Gary
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>Gary E. Masters
>Librarian (Systems)
>CDRH - FDA
>(301) 827-6893
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