> I am printing some html-text from different flash-files. I > need to replace > the html-signs to normal characters (for instance <BR> to > return). Anyone > knows of a list with html-characters and the corresponding normal > characters? I am not sure exactely what the text will look > like, so the best > would be a pretty comprehensive list..

HTML by itself isn't meant for printing - there's no fixed line length or number of lines on a page in HTML. How it appears and prints depends on what each browser is configured to do.

Any browser's "Save as..." option usually does a pretty good job of making a plain text file that has a layout similar to the general on-screen look of a page, and then you can print that using Notepad or any text editor.

NoteTab/NoteTab Pro <http://www.notetab.com> has some pretty good tools for stripping out HTML tags or modifying them throughout a file, but not for replacing them with their plain-text equivalents, where applicable. You could also script your own preferences within NoteTab.

Just on a whim, you might want to try printing from Lynx. It isn't just for Unix anymore (and never really was, but that's a different story), and since it's designed as a text-mode browser it does a good job of rendering and printing page layouts using only text - once you get your printer configured. <http://lynx.browser.org/> will tell you where to find a port you can use.

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