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lotustat
03-03-2006, 02:07 PM
Hi All,

I am working with web pages that have lots of information on them. However, I only need a little bit of this information to be printed. It is very cumbersome to print whole web pages with lots of stuff I don't need on them.

So, I am looking for a utility that can (ideally) extract just the data I need from the web page that I'm looking at and either print it or open a new browser window with a new page that contains only the data I want.

I figure something so useful as a data extractor or data reformatter is already in existence and I don't want to write one from scratch.

I need to be able to browse to the page I want to get the data from and then get the data just from that page. I can't just "get" a certain URL and then parse it. It needs to be passed from the current browser window.

Anybody heard of anything that can help me?

Thanks, Jeff

ray326
03-03-2006, 02:31 PM
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/