What can i do with?

[55julie55]

Too many lemons.

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

Ultimate lemon meringue pie recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food


http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/cuisine/european/english/lemon-curd.html


Tim

 

[55julie55]

Now that's a winner!
Brings back memories of childhood.
It was the first thing I ever made

 

[55julie55]

Tim is there a way to save the recipe page to a file?

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

To convert a web page to PDF in Safari you can use a 'bookmarklet' - a small piece of Javascript that will convert the web page to PDF.

Just create a blank bookmark and enter the text below - in its entirety - in the place where the URL normally goes.

javascriptdf_url=location.href;location.href='http://pdfmyurl.com?url='+escape(pdf_url)

(sometimes, when I paste this bookmarklet into iPad Forum a spurious space gets inserted in the 'http' part of the bookmarklet. It shouldn't be there so, if you see it, you'll have to edit it out.

Now, when you want to convert a webpage to PDF, simply surf to the page you want to convert and select the above bookmarklet. Safari will convert the page to PDF and you'll then be able to save it in iBooks or another compatible app.

Tim
Scotland.
Two mistakes in a row - it's not a good day

 

[lukepast]

Thanks for that I've just added a bookmark on the bar called PDF me that works just great - I tested it with this thread

 

[SweetPoison]

Two mistakes in a row - it's not a good day

You are slippin, babe. Are you a sickie?

 

[lukepast]

Too many lemons.

Slice them and freeze them for putting in drinks helps chill the drink as well

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

Two mistakes in a row - it's not a good day

You are slippin, babe. Are you a sickie?

Too many late nights and early mornings and, I guess, the red wine last night didn't help..

Tim

 

[55julie55]

Tim,
Did all that.
Now have the info java script etc in the book mark bar along with the lmp recipe?
When I go back into safari and hit the book mark bar it just with the javascript etc reloads the web page and doesn't appear to option a save or where to save?......?...
Sorry ,what am I doing wrong

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

OK - the Javascript has converted the web page to PDF, so it's like having downloaded a PDF document from the web. If you briefly touch the resulting webpage/PDF you'll see a menu bar at the top briefly appear with the option to 'Open in' and then some options, depending on what you've got on your iPad - usually at least iBooks.

The Javascript works fine with these recipe pages - I've tried it - but it's not totally foolproof because it has to reload the page to do the conversion.

So, if it's a page into which you've entered some text in text boxes, that text might not appear in the PDF. Effectively, the PDF you get is what the webpage would look like if you refreshed the page.

So, to recap, you're not doing anything wrong. It looks as though the Javascript is working fine because it's converted the recipe to an identical looking PDF. So, just touch the page and see if you can spot the menu bar open up at the top of the page with those options.

If there's any remaining problem, just get back to me (I'm out for the next hour though)

Tim

 

[55julie55]

I've really trying and cannot get
it to work.
The only options I can find on a drop down box are open or open in new page ,then it reloads the same page.
Have started from the beginning and still not sure if the JavaScript thing is in the right place
It has a folder at the front not an open book
Is this right
I'm tearing my hair out right now
Sorry I'm just not getting it
Perhaps a few more step by step for the stressed lady.
I really want to understand and do this.
Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

OK - I'm back now. Before we get into difficult stuff, just check that you've got Javascript turned on...

'Settings', 'Safari', 'Javascript'->'On'

Tim

 

[Hayles66]

I copied it from safari and put it into Pages using their default recipe page setup. The photo, I saved to my photos and used it from there. I like to have uniformity rather than a whole folder of various sizes of recipes. Call me a control freak!

sent with love from my iPad on IPF

 

[Tim SPRACKLEN]

I've really trying and cannot get
it to work.
The only options I can find on a drop down box are open or open in new page ,then it reloads the same page.
Have started from the beginning and still not sure if the JavaScript thing is in the right place
It has a folder at the front not an open book
Is this right
I'm tearing my hair out right now
Sorry I'm just not getting it
Perhaps a few more step by step for the stressed lady.
I really want to understand and do this.
Thanks for any help you can give.

OK - once you've checked if you've got Javascript on...

Copy the Javascript from post above.

Touch the Safari curly arrow menu item, touch 'Add Bookmark', Edit the title of the bookmark to something appropriate, say "PDF Save", then edit the URL of the bookmark by pasting the Javascript into it. Get rid of the extra space in the 'http' part of the bookmarklet. Hit 'Save' and you're done.

Tim