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Saving SaveYourself.ca tutorials as files

How to preserve your tutorial for reading and printing long after your subscription period expires


It’s easy to save a tutorial as a “web archive” file, which is like a snapshot of a webpage.  When you open a web page, you are downloading not only the content, but a lot of other information about how the content should look and work. All of it can be saved into a single file that can be opened and used later without an internet connection. A web archive file is basically just like any webpage, except that it is stored on your hard drive instead of the internet.

So a web archive file will preserve your tutorial purchase indefinitely, while preserving the functionality of the live document.

Here are specific saving instructions for the most popular web browsers. In all cases, opening the file again is as simple as double-clicking its icon.

Internet Explorer 6 or 7 on Windows

While viewing the full version of the tutorial:

  1. Select “Save as” from the File menu.  A window will open.
  2. From the pull-down menu to the right of “Save as type:” choose “Web Page, complete (*.htm, *.html)”
  3. Choose the location that you want to save it — the desktop or “My Documents” are common choices — and then click the “Save” button.

Firefox on Windows or Mac

For the slightly more technically inclined, Firefox needs a “plugin” to save webpages as a single file, the Mozilla Archive Format, which is exactly the same idea as web archive file. Get it here, and follow the online instructions.

Safari on Mac

While viewing the full version of the tutorial:

  1. Select “Save as” from the File menu.  A window will open.
  2. From the pull-down menu to the right of “Format:” choose “Web archive”
  3. Choose the location that you want to save it — the desktop or your “Documents” folder are common choices — and then click the “Save” button.

An alternative for Mac users: “print” the document as a PDF file

On any recent Mac, anything that you can print on paper you can also easily “print” to a file in PDF format. Web archive files are superior, because they will retain all the functionality of the original tutorial. However, PDFs can be nice too. Here’s how to save a document as a PDF file on a Mac.