It's a very good idea to backup your blog, periodically.
Making a mirror copy of the blog, on a local computer that you control, is a good idea for many reasons.
You also might like to make a printed copy of the blog. If you would simply like to print off your blog to paper, to save the text of the posts, here is code that will let you extract a selection of updates.
This code lets you retrieve blog posts content, in sequence.
Simply
After you've done this a few times, and suffered the truncated horizontal content, and orphaned vertical content, you'll understand why Adobe Acrobat and similar formatting programs are so expensive - and yet so popular. Your browser will do only so good a job reformatting the content of the blog, horizontally and vertically, when printed.
But use Print Preview, and try the many alternative print formatting services.
I'll note here that Blog2Print is the currently popular solution - and Blog2Print, along with various other third party services, may be affected by the ClientLogin upgrade, from 2015. If your blog is private, you may need to make it public, temporarily - so Blog2Print can read its posts..
Making a mirror copy of the blog, on a local computer that you control, is a good idea for many reasons.
You also might like to make a printed copy of the blog. If you would simply like to print off your blog to paper, to save the text of the posts, here is code that will let you extract a selection of updates.
This code lets you retrieve blog posts content, in sequence.
http://yourblog.blogspot.com/search?
updated-min=1999-01-01T00:00:00Z&
updated-max=2008-01-01T23:59:59:00Z&
max-results=5000
updated-min=1999-01-01T00:00:00Z&
updated-max=2008-01-01T23:59:59:00Z&
max-results=5000
Simply
- Copy the code into a text word processor such as Notepad.
- Replace
- yourblog.blogspot.com - The blog URL.
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z - The start date and time.
- 2008-01-01T23:59:59:00Z - The end date and time.
- Remove gratuitous line breaks, from the code, so it all forms one single long line.
- Copy and paste the entire line, as a URL, into the address window in your browser.
- When the proper display is seen in the browser, use the browser print wizard to print as you wish.
After you've done this a few times, and suffered the truncated horizontal content, and orphaned vertical content, you'll understand why Adobe Acrobat and similar formatting programs are so expensive - and yet so popular. Your browser will do only so good a job reformatting the content of the blog, horizontally and vertically, when printed.
But use Print Preview, and try the many alternative print formatting services.
- Blog2Print, which is now a partner with Blogger.
- BlogBooker, which appears to use an Export copy of the comments and posts - and may work with private blogs.
- PrintWhatYouLike.
- Possibly, a few more alternatives.
I'll note here that Blog2Print is the currently popular solution - and Blog2Print, along with various other third party services, may be affected by the ClientLogin upgrade, from 2015. If your blog is private, you may need to make it public, temporarily - so Blog2Print can read its posts..
Comments
Thanks in advance!
I haven't noticed a problem with printing blogs with photos. What's your blog URL?
(Hoping you're still out there). Where do I enter the syntax in the first place? Unfortunately I don't know HTML. I do my blog via a pre-formatted feature on blogspot. Like other moms, I want to print off my entries to keep a diary/journal. Please help if you can.
Tamara
Simply replace
* yourblog.blogspot.com
* 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
* 2008-01-01T23:59:59:00Z
with the appropriate values, to extract all updates for a selected time period. And, need I point it out again, remove gratuitous line breaks, from the code above. Then copy and paste the entire line, as a URL, into the address window in your browser.
I'm not sure how I can explain it any further.
My apologies. I didn't read your original posting thoroughly. I went back and posted your code in the URL, substituting the blog address and dates, and it worked, minus one problem. Many of the photos were cut off on the right side. All the text appeared (even when it hit the right margin), but some photos did not. I couldn't really determine a rhyme or reason for it. If you want to check it out, I'm at www.robandtamara.blogspot.com.
Thanks for your help,
Tamara
Well, to tell the truth, I did a small bit of reformatting based upon your previous comment. It's slightly easier to understand now. Thanks for the feedback.
The horizontal and vertical truncation and other effects will be something that you may have to live with - your browser can do only so much in formatting a continuous display of uncertain height and width. There's a reason why Adobe Acrobat, and similar products, are so expensive and yet so popular.
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