Webpage saved as .mht, will I be able to view this on a Pc w/o internet?

[Denvers Dawgs]

I have several webpages that I have saved as Web Archive single file (*mht),and I was wondering if these files will to be able to be seen if they are on a Pc that has no internet connection?

[Abbadon]

Are you sure the files contain the extension mht instead of htm?, I can save webpages as a single file and read them without internet connection using a browser.

[JerryB]

I have several webpages that I have saved as Web Archive single file (*mht),and I was wondering if these files will to be able to be seen if they are on a Pc that has no internet connection?

hi,
I save files as mht all the time.... that way i can have all the graphics in just one file instead of a file and a folder for the graphics.....

you don't have to be on line or have a internet connections... as long as you use your IE to open the file..... not sure if mozilla or opera canopen the file.. but definitely IE can!!...

[Denvers Dawgs]

Sweet! Thanks for the replies

[JerryB]

Are you sure the files contain the extension mht instead of htm?, I can save webpages as a single file and read them without internet connection using a browser.

hi,
yes he means mht file... in your IE 6 when you do a save as , youhave 4 choices of format... txt, webpage complete , htm only or MHT ... the advantage of the *.mht is that it will save all the graphics within the single mht file along with the text of course....... it comes in real handy
when you want to save tutorial where the graphics are important.. I save a lot of tutorial from retouchpro on photoshop ...

note: if you don't have the 4 choices in yours.. then I suspect you have a older version of IE..

[Abbadon]

Are you sure the files contain the extension mht instead of htm?, I can save webpages as a single file and read them without internet connection using a browser.

hi,
yes he means mht file... in your IE 6 when you do a save as , youhave 4 choices of format... txt, webpage complete , htm only or MHT ... the advantage of the *.mht is that it will save all the graphics within the single mht file along with the text of course....... it comes in real handy
when you want to save tutorial where the graphics are important.. I save a lot of tutorial from retouchpro on photoshop ...

note: if you don't have the 4 choices in yours.. then I suspect you have a older version of IE..

I don't use IE6, I run FireFox.

[JerryB]

Are you sure the files contain the extension mht instead of htm?, I can save webpages as a single file and read them without internet connection using a browser.

hi,
yes he means mht file... in your IE 6 when you do a save as , youhave 4 choices of format... txt, webpage complete , htm only or MHT ... the advantage of the *.mht is that it will save all the graphics within the single mht file along with the text of course....... it comes in real handy
when you want to save tutorial where the graphics are important.. I save a lot of tutorial from retouchpro on photoshop ...

note: if you don't have the 4 choices in yours.. then I suspect you have a older version of IE..

I don't use IE6, I run FireFox.

hi,
I wasn't sure if firefoxed had that save as option... too bad , that is one thing I do like about ie6.. smile... is that you can save in that mht format!! come in real handy...!

[Seeker47]

yes he means mht file... in your IE 6 when you do a save as , youhave 4 choices of format... txt, webpage complete , htm only or MHT ... the advantage of the *.mht is that it will save all the graphics within the single mht file along with the text of course....... it comes in real handy
when you want to save tutorial where the graphics are important.. I save a lot of tutorial from retouchpro on photoshop ...
note: if you don't have the 4 choices in yours.. then I suspect you have a older version of IE..

Yeah, but here's the problem: If you look a bit more closely I believe you will find that you are not saving the actual graphics, included in your .MHT document. (Which happens to be one of the main points behind Adobe's .PDF) Instead, what you are incorporating are links to online graphics images. They load automatically when you bring up the .MHT document again. And that is all perfectly fine . . . right up until the day a year or two from now when those web pages or sites hosting the graphics images either move, or go away altogether. So, if you were putting together something like one of the many useful Guides available here, which relies on screen shots, graphs and the like, and you want to make it self-contained and a reference for the ages, you probably don't want to go with .MHT. (Then again, I don't like IE, and rarely use it, so I could be wrong.)

Are there any freeware equivalents to the full-blown Adobe package ($$) -- something that you can just point at your finished Text + Graphics and presto, there is your complete & illustrated document ?

[JerryB]

yes he means mht file... in your IE 6 when you do a save as , youhave 4 choices of format... txt, webpage complete , htm only or MHT ... the advantage of the *.mht is that it will save all the graphics within the single mht file along with the text of course....... it comes in real handy
when you want to save tutorial where the graphics are important.. I save a lot of tutorial from retouchpro on photoshop ...
note: if you don't have the 4 choices in yours.. then I suspect you have a older version of IE..

Yeah, but here's the problem: If you look a bit more closely I believe you will find that you are not saving the actual graphics, included in your .MHT document. (Which happens to be one of the main points behind Adobe's .PDF) Instead, what you are incorporating are links to online graphics images. They load automatically when you bring up the .MHT document again. And that is all perfectly fine . . . right up until the day a year or two from now when those web pages or sites hosting the graphics images either move, or go away altogether. So, if you were putting together something like one of the many useful Guides available here, which relies on screen shots, graphs and the like, and you want to make it self-contained and a reference for the ages, you probably don't want to go with .MHT. (Then again, I don't like IE, and rarely use it, so I could be wrong.)

Are there any freeware equivalents to the full-blown Adobe package ($$) -- something that you can just point at your finished Text + Graphics and presto, there is your complete & illustrated document ?

hi seeker 47,
no they are not links andyou are saving the actual graphics......... the graphics are embedded in the mht file..... simple proof of that is that I can open that mht file showing all the graphics and "i am not connected" to the net!!!!
note: i am also not using IE off line feature I don't like it...smile....
another clue if you save normally a htm webpage you will find the file is only about 200 or 300k however when you save that webpage as a *.mht file you will find that file is about 1-3 megs, maybe more, in size depending on how many and size of the embedded graphics...!!


As for your other question..... a free program that a clone of adobe pdf creator..... I don't of any to that degree... HOwever there are some good pdf cretor programs that are either free or very low price (compared to adobe.. smile)
this FREE one (pdf redirect v2) is avail at download.com this link tells you some of it features...
http://www.exp-systems.com/PDFreDirect/Features.htm?1 maybe it fits what yo need... PCmag rates it pretty highly....

in addtion, i have seen shareware pdf creator programs that are supposed to be real good in the 50 bucks range.... asimple internet search will find those...

[Ai Haibara]

To confirm: IE does save the graphics within the .mht file. Watch the "Saving" box as you're creating the .mht... it'll mention the graphics it's saving. (The graphics are MIME-encoded into the file; you can open the MHTML file in a text viewer and confirm this for yourself.)

You can open .mht files directly in Firefox (offline or not) using the Mozilla Archive Format extension.

As for PDF creators, you can always try
OpenOffice.org, too.

[Seeker47]

To confirm: IE does save the graphics within the .mht file. Watch the "Saving" box as you're creating the .mht... it'll mention the graphics it's saving. (The graphics are MIME-encoded into the file; you can open the MHTML file in a text viewer and confirm this for yourself.)

Could this be something that changed with some version of IE ? I seem to recall seeing some .MHT files where some of the graphics weren't there anymore, apparently for the reasons I mentioned. But then, like I said, I'm not much of an IE user. Given the choice, I'd still rather have such content in .PDF form.

You can open .mht files directly in Firefox (offline or not) using the Mozilla Archive Format extension.

Thanks for the tip.

[INFRATOM]

Yes you could save and watch them through ie with no internet connection. Also try select the page copy and paste into MS Word if you have office 2003 or so its nice and you can edit too get rid of un-necessary stuff. Or if you have Acrobat capture the site.

[Ai Haibara]

Could this be something that changed with some version of IE ? I seem to recall seeing some .MHT files where some of the graphics weren't there anymore, apparently for the reasons I mentioned. But then, like I said, I'm not much of an IE user. Given the choice, I'd still rather have such content in .PDF form.

I couldn't say, really, as I don't use IE much, myself. Maybe it was an earlier implementation of MHTML that didn't include the graphics, yet - or at some point, there was a way to choose.