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movies on the phone. You can click and drag individual files (or groups of
files selected by holding down
COMMAND
or
SHIFT
) to a Finder window or the
desktop, or you can click the Import buttons at the bottom of the screen, in
which case a File Save dialog box will open letting you choose a destination.
In both cases, a new Preview window will appear showing the pictures as
they're imported.
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Copy Web Pages to Disk
There are a variety of ways to save web pages to disk within Safari so you can
view them later.
Using the Reading List
Perhaps the quickest is to use the Reading List, which is built into Safari and
is designed to let you read pages even if your computer is offline. Browse to
the page in question and hit
SHIFT
+
COMMAND
+
D
, or select the Add to Reading
List entry on the Bookmarks menu. You can access your stored Reading List
pages by clicking the eyeglasses icon at the left of the shortcuts toolbar. You
can access your Reading List pages even if you have no Internet connection,
making this a useful way to collate pages to read while on a flight, for example.
Reading List only saves the web page text and images. If there are any movies
or music in the page, then they won't be saved.
Saving Web Archives
The biggest issue with the Reading List is that only you can read any pages
it stores—there's no way to export a Reading List page. To save a web page
to disk so it can be opened on any other Mac or on a Windows PC that has
Safari installed, click File→Save As; then in the Format drop-down list of the
dialog box that appears, select the Web Archive option. This will create a
single file that you can email to others or pass to them via a USB memory
stick.
Saving as a PDF
To save the web page so it can be viewed on any computer, save it as a PDF
file. Click File→Print; then, in the dialog box that appears, click the PDF
