RSS feeds are a great way of keeping up with the contents that are posted on a website. They basically inform the user whenever a new post was published on the website which makes it more comfortable for the user to stay up to date. RSS feeds to require a reader that is capable of managing and displaying the feeds. Most modern web browsers come with that option but there are also online and offline RSS readers like Google Reader or RSS Owl that can be freely used for that purpose.
Your Own News Maker is a very specialized form of RSS reader as its main purpose is not to inform the user of new posts but to turn those posts into pdf or fb2 format for offline reading.
Multiple RSS feeds can be added to the program as sources. The software will pull the latest articles of the RSS feeds automatically from the sites and display their titles in the content column.
If you would hit the make pdf or make fb2 button right now you would create a file that only contains titles and links to the articles but not the articles itself.
The page rules wizard needs to be used to select the part of the content that the user wants included in the pdf or fb2 document. A click on that button will open the selected article in html view with all html and script elements displayed. The user now needs to find the position in the html document where the content starts and ends.
It is furthermore possible to clear all html tags in the output and define the parser rules. Parser rules are used to define the content that is included in the pdf newspaper. The program fills that out automatically based on the content selection in the first step of the process.
A click on the pdf or fb2 button will then generate the document and display it in a preview window. A click on the ok button will open the save file dialog window to save the pdf to the local computer system.
Your Own News Maker is an interesting program to turn RSS feeds into pdf or fb2 documents. The content selection is slightly complicated and I ran into the problem that the ad beneath the content was included in the document even though it was not selected in the process.
The program is available as a portable version or installer for the Windows operating system as well as Linux. It can be downloaded from the Google Code project site.
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i can’t find download link at your post and at google code project website..
here’s the link:
http://code.google.com/p/yourownnewsmaker/
Martin, as much as we all appreciate the info, you really do need to carefully review the information you provide before sending it out, as you don’t half make it difficult for people sometimes. We eventually had to give up on the elusive RSS Feed To PDF Newspaper.
This is just friendly advice. Not having a dig.
What happened?