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All I need is a good web clipper like evernote's Clearly, so that I can directly save cleaned webpage to a .doc file in a Dropbox folder. Still can't find one.

Also, why dropbox does not create a simple note taking app, just save notes to a dropbox folder?

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If you don't need it to be a .doc, Google chrome allows you to save webpages to PDFs just by going to file > print[0] and it works quite well. The Evernote clipper worked pretty well IIRC, but either way you will have to edit the markup a bit to get the results on a very cluttered page. In a pinch though, chrome does a great job if you don't want to have evernote simply to clip pages.

[0]http://www.labnol.org/software/save-web-page-as-pdf/21153/

Word allows you to open PDFs - so it can be edited and saved as anything you want.

I generally avoid Chrome, but I'll give that a try. I hope it works better than my experiences with both Safari and Firefox on OS X.

Those browsers have long supported what is mentioned in your linked article:

   File -> Print -> PDF -> Save as PDF

However, it's very hit-and-miss of what results you'll get. About 80% of pages come out fine, but the remainder can be quite awful. And it's unpredictable which browser will do better on any given page. At the least, you'd expect results to match printing to paper, but sometimes even that doesn't happen. Safari has a Reader View that produces good results, but I don't think very many websites support it.

Unfortunately, certain websites go out of they way to prevent us from saving them to PDF.

because there are plenty of note taking / writing apps that use dropbox directly?

MS Edge does this and saves to onedrive.

It saves webpage / clip as a picture. Really not what I want.

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