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Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF
Date	2015-09-02 14:45 +0000
Organization	ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand
Message-ID	<fasdfnv83.jiasd@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
References	<D20BEB0D.59A87%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>

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Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> You moved goal posts and asked about saving a bunch of recipes to PDF.

> Well, I played for a bit. The ONLY changes I made to my computer to do this
> was to add Paparazzi to my dock so I could get to it easily and, as I opened
> it the first time (not shown) it asked if I wanted to update so I did. I
> also set Paparazzi's save folder to the Recipe folder we have been looking
> at.

> Other than that NO changes. No added scripts. No added extensions. No added
> anything.

> <http://youtu.be/c65ojXTxynU>

> In under 3 minutes I was able to save all the recipes on the allrecipes.com
> homepage to my computer as PDFs... including getting the print version so
> they would look good. To be fair: that was my second attempt. With my first
> I goofed on a search and replace and instead of just undoing I started from
> scratch to "look good" on the video.

> Not a hard challenge at all. :)

OMG you have got to be kidding me!  LOL!
I was going to show you this improvement to teh "workflow":

https://vid.me/flKe

but since you went insane with that 3-minute dance (holy shit wtf?!)
all I have to say is, "Dude, let the computer do the work for you":

https://vid.me/X4kA

Magic dust.  Time to eat some.
70 seconds.

God, I'm so glad I'm not stuck with a Mack.

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Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 14:45 +0000
  Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:09 +0000
    Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 20:05 +0000
      Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-03 11:27 +0000

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