Use applescript to save old iWeb entries as PDF files?

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Use applescript to save old iWeb entries as PDF files?

Is there an Apple Scripting guru that can answer this question? I have two iWeb sites (actually they have never been published - the app was used for journaling).

Since iWeb is dead, I want to get my entries out of iWeb and saved - the publish to HTML service throws an error every time - so I can't get anything useful from that option. I can get adequate results by printing each entry as a PDF file. However - there are a lot of entries. Can AppleScript help out here? Or Automator?

note: Many of the entries contain color formatting and images - so I need more than text.

I have El Capitan or another old iMac with Snow Leopard if it makes a difference.

Posted on Jan 18, 2016 9:09 PM

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Answer 1

Ethmoid

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Jan 19, 2016 12:21 AM in response to Dwayne Schnell

As far as I know, iWeb never has had a publish to HTML option.

If you have iWeb 09, which is version 3, then you will have publish directly to ftp or publish to your desktop and this is what produces the html files.

Other than that, you could always copy and paste from iWeb to a new application.

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Answer 2

Jan 19, 2016 5:54 AM in response to Ethmoid

ummm.... I guess I meant that: Publish to Folder = Publish to HTML. Same thing - throws an error.

ANY Mac app that can print can save a PDF. (True in Windows to with different print to PDF apps).

Copy and pasting over 1000 entries, or PDFing manually is not appealing at this time, and copy and pasting wrecks some of the formatting applied in the entries.

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