The “Printer Friendly Display” link will bring the entire text of a bill to the screen for capturing. This URL is temporary - please do not bookmark it. Based on system usage and the time of day, this link will expire as THOMAS cleans up "old" searches.
To download the text of a bill, select the "Save As" feature of your browser. In Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Firefox, the "Save As" feature appears under the "File" menu at the top of the screen.
For Windows-based browsers, selecting the "Save As" feature results in a dialog box which prompts you to choose the drive and path where you want to save the file. Unless you want to download the HTML codes (the "tags" that are used to format a Web page) along with the text, make sure you select "Plain Text" format under "Save as type." In Windows applications, you can name the file whatever you wish, but you should give the file a .txt extension to ensure you are saving the file as plain text, not HTML format. Once you have selected the path, file name, and format, click on "OK" to save the text of the bill.
If you are using the Lynx text-based browser, choose p, the Print option. One of the print options available for users who are using Lynx from their own accounts (that is, so-called "non-anonymous users") is "Save to a local file." This option allows you to save the text of the bill in plain text format into a file on your disk space.
