OmniWeb Help

Saving Web Content

Eventually you'll be seized with the desire to save a memento or two of your travels on the web, perhaps for safekeeping, or perhaps to use in another application.

In general, if there's something in an OmniWeb window that you'd like to have elsewhere, you can simply select it and drag it. Images can be saved in the appropriate formats by dragging them to Finder windows or the desktop (if an image is also a clickable link, you'll need to hold the Shift key while dragging -- otherwise a link will be saved instead). Dragging text to the Finder will save it as a text clipping. You can also drag images and text into other applications that can handle them. And of course, you can use the standard commands in the Edit menu to get data from one application to another easily.

There are plenty of other ways to save web pages, images, and other page resources:

To save a web page's source HTML (or an image in its original format), choose Save As... ⇧⌘S from the File menu.

To save a web page in PDF format, hold down Option and choose Save As PDF... ⌥⇧⌘S from the File menu. This saves the current web page as a single-page PDF document. You can also use the Save As PDF functionality in the Print panel to save a paginated PDF file (if there are multiple pages).

If you're looking at a page full of links to images (say, a photo album with thumbnails that link to larger images) and you'd like to save them all to disk, choose Save Linked ▶ Images... from the File menu.

To save all the other HTML documents linked from the web page you're currently viewing, choose Save Linked ▶ Documents... from the File menu.

Also, elements in web pages can be saved to disk by control-clicking on them and choosing one of the Save items from the contextual menu.

Additionally, OmniWeb provides a Page Info panel. This is a hierarchical list of resources that make up the page sorted by type. This serves as another method of saving resources from web pages.