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Valued Member
United States
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Is there anything like photograde that is downloadable and available for normal computers (ie, not ipads or iphones)?
I'm looking to have something for reference on my computer to take with me in case I'm not able to connect to the internet.
Any ideas/help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sam
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I do not know of one that is downloadable except for the android/iphone app you are speaking of. I am sure you can probably find a way to save a copy of the photograde site to your computer somehow (maybe convert to pdf or something). I believe I have done it but its been a long time since I have actually looked at the photograde on my computer and have an appointment in 20 minutes with my lawyers but I will see if I can figure something out when I return home and back at a computer
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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well I have tried adobe acrobat pro and it doesn't get the pages correctly and neither does just trying to save the page as with IE/Firefox so I really do not know how to do what you are wanting. There used to be a way to save a page for offline use but it has been so long since I have even heard anyone wanting to use this that I don't remember how to do it
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Valued Member
United States
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I'm not familiar with the app you are referring to. If you are looking to mirror a photograde website for offline use, httrack should work. I use the Linux version, but there may be a windows version located at their website. Here's a description of from the man page: Quote:Description: Copy websites to your computer (Offline browser) HTTrack is an offline browser utility, allowing you to download a World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your computer. . HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. . Homepage: http://www.httrack.com Hope that helps. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I tried httrack and it doesn't work either. I actually tried it before I responded but figured no one would ever hear of this app so I didn't mention it when I responded above. It doesn't even do as good as adobe, httrack only gets the pages without pictures which kind of defeats the purpose.
The app I am refering to is a downloadable app of phgotpograde for ipod touch/iphone that does the same thing on a smart device that you get on the website without connecting to the internet like he is talking about wanting to do on his computer. Since these are for these hand held devices they will not work on a PC so not going to do what he is wanting
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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this may help you http://www.pcworld.com/article/2493...your_pc.html it shows you how to run android apps on your pc. So all you should need to do is download the android photograde app and then run it with that program and from what they say it will run on your pc like it does the smart phone. It seems the problem may be finding the .apk for download. I am going to try to pull it off my phone but I can't find it anywhere online for download. I don't see it in the market any longer either, I am not sure if it was ever there since I have both ipod touch and android so it may have always been on the ipod/iphone and never been an android app. If they ever make an android app this would work but until that happens I do not know of a way to use iphone apps on a pc and really don't think it would ever be possible since they are totally different |
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Valued Member
United States
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Hmm... I would be willing to put together a set of files with the enlarged images in 2 columns (one obv one rev) for all the coins on PCGS's website, for everyone to download and use, but, I'm sure that would be copyright infringement if I distributed it. I would love to support this community that has already helped me tremendously, but there's no point in doing it if its not going to benefit everyone. On the other hand it is possible to work out an acceptable (but not great) solution with Firefox. Go the page with all the images for the coin series you want, then click on the orange "Firefox" button at the top left, go to "Save Page as" and save it as "Web page, complete". This will save all images on the page into a folder (with file names that make sense, e.g., WreathCent-35r.jpg). I just did this right now so I know it works - Firefox version 12.0. Using that you can easily organize folders with all the online images and you can just view them in any image viewer/editor (no need to use a web browser) ... HOWEVER... it does not give you the enlarged photos.  I don't think there's really much else you can do to get those other than the really, long and hard way.... |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Everytime I try the "save as" option it doesn't work at all here. I have tried it with IE and Firefox and the page is all messed up. Firefox used to have a addon called "save complete" but I see it hasn't been updated to work with the latest update of the browser so that doesn't work now either
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Valued Member
United States
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Bryan, with my method the images get saved as .jpg's in a folder. This is not for viewing them in a web browser; that won't work. But with this option you get a folder appropriately named and image files for all the coins. Using Windows Photo Viewer you can just scroll through them similarly to how you would on the website.
But, you don't get the large pictures with this method so its not the greatest.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Thanks for all the replies. I'm running firefox 3.6.28 (latest version for my OS/processor combo) on a G4 powerbook so I'm a little limited. However being an Apple does lend itself to the slight possibility of being able to run Iphone apps with the appropriate patches. Thoughts? I've thought of downloading them all too.
cheers
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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this is going to sound like a really simple/stupid suggestion but that having been said...
take the time to bring up each enlarged image that you want and press PrtScn (Print Screen) button on your keyboard. Than go to a word doc and CTRL+V (paste) and there you have it. It will take some time but that is dependent upon how many images for how many coins.
I viewed the page source on one of the main coin pages and you have embedded .gif images within java commands in the HTML so unless you grab an old school program like homesite and dissect each pages code and pull out what you want, which is possible btw, your left with few choices.
yes, I used to program HTML and JAVA Script WAY back in the day...
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Valued Member
United States
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@Bryan1315. Thanks for the feedback. Sorry to hear httrack didn't work. I have success with other non-coin related sites. I had not tried it myself with that particular site. I guess that too bad. It would have been really cool had it worked.
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