Getting Started
If your professional activities involve using the Internet, then you have experienced times when you need to print, save, transfer to your handheld, or otherwise use some information from a web page. Usually you do not need the entire page, with its navigation, banners and advertising, and other stuff. Moreover, these unnecessary parts of the web page are sometimes harmful by making the page so wide that it does not fit the paper in your printer, or the screen of your handheld, etc.
The common solution for this problem is to select the necessary part of the page, copy it to the clipboard and paste into some other application like Microsoft Word or notepad where it can be printed or saved. If you have ever done this, then you know that selecting a part of the page with the mouse is often inconvenient (especially if this part is large spanning several screen lengths), copying and pasting is annoying, and in most cases the result looses its original formatting.
Acmeta Fragmento allows you to visually select some part of a web page, transform the selected part into a new page (preserving the original formatting), and open it a new browser window. You can further use the extracted fragment just like you would any other web page.
Fragmento is easy to use and integrates into your browser (currently Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher are supported). Fragmento toolbar will appear in your browser after you have installed the software (see fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Fragmento Toolbar in Internet Explorer
To use the product, please follow these simple instructions:
- Select the fragment you want
- Extract it as a new web page shown in a new browser window
- Use it any way you use regular web pages.
Select
The first thing you need to do when using Fragmento is select the part of a web page you want to extract. To enter selection mode, push the 'Select' button on the Fragmento toolbar (see fig. 2).
Fig. 2. The Select Button
Second, move your mouse over the desired element on the page. As you move your mouse, the current element is highlighted with a bold red border (see fig. 3).
Fig. 3. A Highlighted Element
Click the left mouse button to select the element that is currently highlighted (see fig. 4).
Fig. 4. A Selected Element
It is possible to select multiple elements. It is also possible to deselect part of a selected element. To do that, move the mouse pointer over the part that you would like to deselect and click the left mouse button.
When the selection is made, you can either cancel (by pressing the 'Select' button again) or extract it.
Extract
To extract the selected part of the web page, push the 'Extract' button on the Fragmento toolbar (see fig. 5).
Fig. 5. The Extract Button
This will open the selected fragment in a new browser window (see fig. 6).
Fig. 6. Extracted Fragment
The extracted fragment is an ordinary web page, so you can use it just like any other web page.
Use
You can use the extracted page just as you would any other web page. You can print it, save it, or transfer it to your handheld using the regular capabilities of your browser and third party software.
