Using Safari on Mac OS X to quickly generate off line Web Pages and E-Books

From Internet Tablet Talk

For Mac OS X users, one handy way to maximize FBReader's HTML reading capabilities is to save a webpage you'd like to read later (i.e. a long article's PRINT version) as a Web Archive (under the File menu option in Safari). Drag the resulting Web Archive file into the 770's RCMMC card via USB and then the Web Archive will show up as a folder on the 770. Then open the enclosed .html file and the page will be readable in FBReader—including images. Excellent for offline reading. You can also of course open the .html file with the Opera web browser, but that is a much slower and less flexible experience in some ways, the original layout will be better preserved however.

Mac OS X 10.4 introduced the textutil command line tool. textutil provides shell access to the same OS X built-in Cocoa libraries that Safari uses; in particular the -convert flag permits interconversion between plain text, HTML, RTF, RTFD, Microsoft Word (97/2000/2003/2004, not Word 2007), WordML, and web archive files.

To convert a Word document called myfile.doc to a web archive, use:

 textutil -convert webarchive myfile.doc

To convert an HTML document to an RTF file, use:

 textutil -convert rtf myfile.html 

And so on.

(Textutil can also be used to convert codesets, fonts, and other formatting attributes: refer to the man page for further details.)