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(Archived) Unable to Clip Certain Newspaper "Print" Pages


CarlEdman

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I have been using the web clipper bookmarklet with great success on most pages I want to clip. However, one class of web pages--mostly the "print" versions of articles on British newspaper web sites--stubbornly resist. Launching the bookmarklet brings up the "web clip" window, but it is (and remains indefinitely) completely blank.

For example, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/24/martin-amis-euthanasia-booths-alzheimers will web clip without problems. The linked printable version (without all the extraneous, unrelated content) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/24/martin-amis-euthanasia-booths-alzheimers/print will exhibit the error described above.

This error is 100% reproducible on most (or all?) articles on most (or all?) major British newspaper websites, using both Google Chrome 4.0 and Internet Explor 7.0.

Is this a known problem? Is there a known fix? Thanks for any pointers.

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Our "bookmarklet" web clipper tries to clip the target page via our own servers, which send a request to the publisher for the page and associated images. My guess is that these pages may be protected against this type of thing to avoid "deep linking" and other access without login and/or cookies.

You could try selecting part of the page first, and then clip that. This may help, by sending the desired HTML to our servers from your browser.

Otherwise, I'd recommend using the non-bookmarklet clipper. The "Add to Evernote" clipper in IE is built in to our client software, and the Chrome clipper is available from the Chrome extension site:

http://blog.evernote.com/2009/12/09/goo ... -clipping/

These will clip directly to your local client, so will be able to access the desired content directly, circumventing security restrictions on the hosting site.

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You could try selecting part of the page first, and then clip that. This may help, by sending the desired HTML to our servers from your browser.

Thanks. That is what I have been doing and it works reasonably well, but requires exact clipping and usually some cleanup of interspersed extranea in the Evernote editor.

Otherwise, I'd recommend using the non-bookmarklet clipper. The "Add to Evernote" clipper in IE is built in to our client software, and the Chrome clipper is available from the Chrome extension site:

http://blog.evernote.com/2009/12/09/goo ... -clipping/

These will clip directly to your local client, so will be able to access the desired content directly, circumventing security restrictions on the hosting site.

That is what I thought too. But strangely enough, the Evernote Chrome extension fails in exactly the same way as the bookmark (I have not tried the IE extension).

Also, in a probably unrelated bug, the Evernote Chrome extension fails on web pages from my local hard drives (e.g., old saved web pages I'm uploading the Evernote), while the Evernote bookmarklet mostly works.

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If you're on Windows, your best bet for these pages would be to select the desired content first, then use the "Clip Selection to Evernote" menu option from the Evernote icon in the system tray, or the associated hotkey. This directly transfers the HTML via local Windows APIs.

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