Capture the complete content of a Web Page from over the World Wide Web!

Dreamcatcher has always permitted you to create a site tree or map of a remote site. The resulting Site Tree will permit you to see the structure of any site on the Web, find broken links, make repairs, and update the site.

Now, with Version 4.0, you can capture the entire content of a site: Web pages (HTML files), images (.gif and .jpg), and so on. Web Factory will capture all files your browser would be able to access.

Instead of Capturing a whole site, however, quite often all you want to have is a page or two, but with all the content (images, sounds, etc.). That is the function of our new Page Capture feature.

Warning: Use of this product to violate international copyright law is not legal or in any way sanctioned by TLCO Software or Thunder & Lightning Company. This product has been designed for Web Professionals who wish to maintain their own web sites remotely or who have permission from the owners of the copyrighted material to download such material. TLCO Software and Thunder & Lightning Company explicitly disclaim any responsibility for the improper use of this product by person or persons who are not employees of Thunder & Lightning Company or TLCO Software.

To Capture a Page:

1. Create a Site Tree of the Web Site you wish to Capture
- Go to "File" and then "New"
- Select "Site Tree", then selected "Web File"
- Enter the URL (http://...) of the Web Site your are interested in.

2. Select any page in the left hand window of the Site Tree. You may view the page to make sure it is the one you want by using the menu "Site" command and then select "Test".

3. Once you have the page you wish to save, go to the menu "File" command and select "Save All Files Locally for Page"

4. Designate a directory (for example C:/local/) on your PC in which you want to save the files (set one up ahead of time), and then go ahead with the save.

5. You will find the .htm,.gif,.jpg (etc.) files in the directory you specified. However, if you saved the content of a site which used absolute filenames for some of the files, you will find a new folder in the C:/local directory called "Other". In the "Other " folder, will be all the files which came from an absolute path.

Any files that are in a sub-directory of the homepages directory will be in a subdirectory of the designated directory. For example: If your home page is www.tlco.com/index.htm, and you have a link to a page which is help.html, that file will go to C:/local/help.html. However, /images/pictures.gif will be placed into C:/local/other/images/pictures.gif.

6. Web Factory will use a Path Translation List (.ptl file ), to link the absolute paths used to the directories in "other" where they were saved. This allows Web Factory to use the original absolute links, yet still find the images (etc.) locally. A meta tag will be added to all html files to enable the .ptl file. This tag will be ignored by your Web Server.

7. Linked pages from a different URL than the one you are working on will not be copied.

Example	Resulting File Location	Original Path Type
http://www.tlco.com/webfact/webfact.html (This is the page you decide to save)	The home page, webfact.html file will be saved in the folder you specified as the receiving directory. The path to this page on your PC will be C:/local/webfact.html	Relative
http://www.tlco.com/images/logo.gif (these are images in the page, served up by an absolute path: /image/)	logo.gif file will be save in the same "other" folder (only one "other " folder is created). The path to this file on your PC will be C:/local/other/images/logo.gif	Absolute
http://www.tlco.com/sounds/good.wav (these are sounds in the page, served up by an absolute path: /sounds/)	good.wav file will be saved in the same "other" folder (only one "other" folder is created). The path to this file on your PC will be C:/local/other/sounds/good.wav	Absolute

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