OneNote Web Exporter

COMMENTED ISSUE: Doesn't work

rader5 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:45:07 GMT

I've installed and can press the "button", it then greys out but nothing happens. This is on XP professional.

Thanks,

Tim
Comments: ** Comment from web user: rader5 **

It seems some people are getting this problem, and some not. It looks like the developers have given up on this. You'll probably have to wait 20 years. Getting features fixed or issues resolved in the MS world is a horrible experience. (And apparently not much better for MS opensource.)

NEW POST: Problems when uploading to a server.

Emmadw — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:46:21 GMT

Oh, thanks for this. I'll have a look - I can see that your files are working!

For now, I'll stick to saving it to a memory stick, as I want to go home & that's quicker than either editing files or shoving a picture on every page - but when I get back, I'll try that !

COMMENTED ISSUE: Doesn't work

cosbon — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:15:36 GMT

I've installed and can press the "button", it then greys out but nothing happens. This is on XP professional.

Thanks,

Tim
Comments: ** Comment from web user: cosbon **

Same results here - is there a resolution available?

NEW POST: Problems when uploading to a server.

rossk — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:58:20 GMT

...double post...

NEW POST: Problems when uploading to a server.

rossk — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:58:10 GMT

I spent some more time on this after taking a zoology exam.

Basically, after separating all the .mht files that render correctly from the ones that don't, I realized all the ones that work have graphics in them. When the file has a graphic, the file is introduced with the MIME Content-Type: multipart/related. Then the file is seperated into several documents (The page itself, the image - translated to ASCII, and an XML filelist).

When there are graphics, the whole file is "multipart/related", with sub-sections in the formats "text/html", "image/png", "text/xml". We don't really need to have all those subsections, just one works fine.

With the non-working .mht files, we can add an encapsulation that makes the whole file a single text/html subsection of a multipart/related MHTML document. At the very beginning of the document, immediately after the first line "MIME-Version: 1.0", we can add this:

======================================================
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_FU.BAR"

This document is a Single File Web Page, also known as a Web Archive file. If you are seeing this message, your browser

or editor doesn't support Web Archive files. Please download a browser that supports Web Archive, such as Windows®

Internet Explorer®.

------=_NextPart_FU.BAR
======================================================

Where it says FU.BAR, put anything, but keep it identical in both/all places in that document. Also keep it unique from all the other documents.
Save it, and it will now be rendered correctly on the web.

I really, really, wish Microsoft would use open formats.

NEW POST: Problems when uploading to a server.

rossk — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:44:10 GMT

Emmadw: I had the same problem as you.
I did some experimentation on this.
The issue appears to center around the .mht content.

I set up an Apache Server 2.2.8 for WinXP and played around with hosting/serving the files to myself. For best compatibility with .mht I stuck with IE6 SP2 for the test browser. I did this so I didn't have to worry about whether something was wrong with the FTP transfer - much simpler to handle things locally, but maybe not as controlled.

Displays well:
file://C:\Documents and Settings\Ross\My Documents\OneNote Notebooks\Zoology\_onefiles\0\page0.mht

Does not display well:
http://localhost/_onefiles/0/page0.mht
(looks very similar in my browser to your pages, Emmadw)

These are the same files, accessed through the filesystem, and then accessed through my local apache http server. When accessed over HTTP, the formatting goes out the window, character errors are added, and some of the file's code is visible in the browser.

Ex: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Location: file:///C:/D13228D0/page0.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"

Other files, often ./#/page1.mht, ./#/page2.mht, etc seem to work fine. (but very rarely ./#/page0.mht)
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Played around with the headers of various .mht files for a few hours to no result
...until suddenly and inexplicably the "bad" pages (./0/page0.mht) appeared fine.
I'm not sure why.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I then noticed that when pages worked well, the title bar would say
"mhtml:http://localhost/_onefiles/0/page1.mht" instead of
"http://localhost/_onefiles/0/page0.mht"

so, I started putting "mhtml:" in front of html:// on my local server, and every time I did it, that specific .mht page would load fine, and I would no longer be able to get it to load incorrectly anymore.

Emmadw: This kind of works for you too.
http://www.emmadw.co.uk/OneNote/_onefiles/0/page0.mht
mhtml:http://www.emmadw.co.uk/OneNote/_onefiles/0/page0.mht

However, it doesn't keep the formatting when I remove the mhtml: prefix.
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Other notes:

My opinion: Internet Explorer probably isn't associating the .mht extension very well. Specifically something is strange with the MIME types. I can't grasp it, and don't know HTML/Browsers well enough to understand what's going on. It would be nice to be able to force an ":mhtml"-like state remotely. I think that's what the .mht extension is supposed to do, but is not.

I want to find a way to rid ourselves of the MHTML format entirely, and convert to HTML, keeping relative links intact.

NEW POST: Runs on Vista?

midknightr — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:21:01 GMT

drebel:
I checked and I have microsoft.office.interop.onenote ver 12.0.0.0 and it still just greys out. (Vista Ultimate Office Onenote 2007)

How do you turn on this error logging you speak of?

NEW POST: Runs on Vista?

drebel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:13:42 GMT

Solved the problem of the "Grayed out Globe!" I enabled error logging, and saw that it could not locate the OneNote interop dll. I then searched for the latest Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies, installed, and BAM, it works. So some people do not have these installed with their .Net, and since this program uses them, they will need to go out and install. An easy way to check, go to c:\windows\assembly and see if you have Microsoft.Office.Interop.OneNote - if you don't you need it!

NEW POST: Runs on Vista?

drebel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:51:06 GMT

When I run cwebber.exe from a command line I get this error. I believe this is what is happening when the icon grays out too:

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or ass
embly 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.OneNote, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, Publ
icKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find
the file specified.
File name: 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.OneNote, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c'
at cwebber.Program.Main(String[] args)

WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\M
icrosoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure lo
gging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fus
ion!EnableLog].

NEW POST: How to Merge Pages in OneNote 2007

Roadtrekie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:50:38 GMT

Merging Pages in OneNote 2007

1. Select the pages you want to merge. These need not be contiguous, but must be in the same section. They will be merged in the order in which they appear by tabs. Rearrange if necessary before selecting. If you want to merge pages from different sections, you will have to move them to a single section first, arrange them in the order you want them merged, then merge pages as provided below:
2. Click File/Publish as PDF or XPF
3. Name the file and click Publish
4. OneNote will create a pdf file.
5. Check the pdf to see if it has reduced images too much to read. If not,
6. Delete the pages you just selected to publish from the Section
7. Create a new page to hold the merged (published) pdf page
8. Click Insert/Files as Printouts
9. The consolidated pages will be inserted into the newly created page. There is apparently no limit to how long this file is (I've done 135 pages so far)

NEW POST: Vista problems with content

Roadtrekie — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:04:42 GMT

OneNote 2007 creates the html file, but there are no contents in the pages. All the section headings and page names are correct. Whahoppen the content? Tried uninstall/reinstall, opening various methods, but still nuttin'.

When I click on a page, it says: "Navigation to the webpage was canceled."

When the web page first opens I get the message: "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options...." I click and allow them to run, but nothing changes.

Any suggestions?

Roadtrekie

NEW POST: Runs on Vista?

johselne — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:48:39 GMT

Thanks midknightr !

Your solution works for me (Vista 64 and OneNote 2007).

John H. Selnæs

NEW POST: Runs on Vista?

midknightr — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:30:07 GMT

Sorry, I haven't checked this place in awhile, but surprisingly it looks like the question was posted not too long ago. It was fate!

If I type cwebber<enter> while in the 'program files/onenote web exporter (0.5.0)/' directory I see:
HCN NSRF
LAB
Neuroscience Classes
Classes

To export a notebook type: cwebber <notebook> <export path> log file
For additional information: cwebber /?

A list of possible notebooks to export (HCN NSRF, LAB,...). The <notebook> has to be in quotes, eg. "HCN NSRF" (I think it should actually tell us that in the 'to export a notebook' section).

So I can type the following:

cwebber "HCN NSRF" c:\users\shawn\desktop\hcn hcn

This works for me :). It's not perfect, and a GUI would be great. I was hoping to find an updated version here, but it looks like the project is dropped or something :(.

I actually made a batch file to run this easier.

Come to my webpage and ask, I'll be more likely to answer.
www.e-lab-book.com

NEW POST: Runs on Vista?

drebel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:35:37 GMT

Can you five me an example of the command you are using?

midknightr wrote:
I have the same problem with the icon just going dim and doing nothing.

If I run the cwebber.exe program in a cmd window and specify a notebook and a path to export to I can get it to work.

No cool interface or daily update option or anything like that though.

COMMENTED ISSUE: Doesn't work

drebel — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:29:39 GMT

I've installed and can press the "button", it then greys out but nothing happens. This is on XP professional.

Thanks,

Tim
Comments: ** Comment from web user: drebel **

I am having the same problem. This is the tool I need, so I am anxious to resolve if possible.

NEW POST: Any plans for embedded data support?

MiToZ — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:44:26 GMT

Hello!

I have quite a few notebooks with embedded "audio recordings" including "search" functionality. Is there any plans for "OneNote Web Exporter" to support them?

Thanks

NEW POST: Problems when uploading to a server.

Emmadw — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:38:54 GMT

I see that several people have mentioned uploading the webpages created to a Sharepoint server. I'm trying to upload them to an ordinary one.
I've exported the pages, and they run as expected from my memory stick (in both IE and Firefox with the IE tab).
Once uploaded, some of them have been garbled, and I can't quite work out why.

(See http://www.emmadw.co.uk/OneNote/laptop2.html )

Some of the pages that work are single sections with no extra pages; some aren't. Some were created in 2003 and then migrated to 2007; some weren't. And so on. I can't work out anything that either all those that work have in common, nor all those that don't.
It must be something, though, as I've tried re-exporting, and it's the same pages that work/don't work.

As I say, from the memory stick - no problem. It's the uploading that's doing something.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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CREATED ISSUE: Doesn't work

timjthomas — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:24:42 GMT

I've installed and can press the "button", it then greys out but nothing happens. This is on XP professional.

Thanks,

Tim

CREATED ISSUE: Vista Issue

hotcoder — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:00:01 GMT

I am unable to get this to work from our Vista Business machines; the www button clicks, greys out, but has no effect. It works perfectly from our XP Professional and SBS machines.