If I try to add a web page as a single-page PDF, using the ‘clutter free’ option, either from (1) Safari’s ‘share’ button, or from (2) the Safari extension, or from (3) the menubar ‘sorter’, there is a long delay (minutes) and finally the thing gets added to DT3’s inbox - as a bookmark, NOT as the PDF as I wanted.
• Using Safari’s ‘share’ button (“Add to DEVONthink 3”):
With clutter-free option: doesn’t save a PDF, but a bookmark. Throughout the waiting time the ‘activity window’ tells me “Downloading Web Pages”. One minute 52 seconds later, the log window pops up and tells me that a bookmark has been saved. And that’s what has been saved, a “web internet location”, or a bookmark - not the PDF I wanted.
Without the ‘clutter-free’ option: sometimes a blank PDF, but more often than not, it works, virtually instantly; a good PDF.
• Using the Safari extension:
With clutter-free option: same thing as when using Safari’s ‘share’ button: a bookmark, not a PDF, after a long wait.
Without clutter-free: a PDF, quickly, BUT with a big black rectangle obscuring the top of the document.
• Using the ‘sorter’ menu item (the rightmost button), “Capture content from… Safari”:
With clutter-free option: same thing as when using Safari’s ‘share’ button: a bookmark, not a PDF after a long wait.
Without the ‘clutter-free’ option: It works, virtually instantly; a good PDF.
This same pattern occurs with virtually every web oage I try with the ‘clutter-free’ option, which therefore doesn’t seem to work.
Hmm. Strange. On my other Mac (MacBook Pro), I don’t encounter the problem, but even after rebooting this iMac, the problem persists. I can’t think why.
Like what sort of connection issues? The problematic iMac is hard-wired to the network via ethernet, while the problem-free MacBook Pro is connecting via Wi-Fi. (Plus, I didn’t know that the data was sent to DEVONTech…)
I don’t know what could be your network issue, but if it works in wifi and don’t in wired, perhaps you can disconnect the cable of your iMac and use its wifi to check if works. Then you are sure your cabled network has an issue.
AFAIK, the URL is sent to Devon servers, and they do the scrapping and returns the result.
In the last few days, I am also experiencing this issue in Brave, either using the clip extension or bookmarklets. Clipping a text selection works fine. Clipping to PDF (with or without the clutter option) returns a bookmark
Any url actually. I just tried again with Devonthinks latest blogpost. I downloaded the bookmarklets PDF (Paginated) and also tried with Clip to Devonthink Extension. Still broken: keeps returning a .webloc file
Hello, This is a very important function for me and I confirm that it has stopped working sometime in the past weeks. I only get a webloc and if I disconnect my machine from the net, I cannot see anything behind this webloc.
I meet this problem on a MacBook running OSX 10.14.6 and DTP 3.5.2 and both with DTP browser, Safari and Firefox, with or without the clutter-free option, with both PDF and Web archive captures.
I really hope we will get a solution for this.
Murat
Thank you for this suggestion. I have rebooted the machine and also deactivated and reactivated the DT plugin in Firefox and now it is able to save Web archive again.
Good to see this, I was having this problem for some time
I am having this same problem with the web clipper on Chrome. I found that restarting DEVONthink allows me to capture successfully from the URL that failed, however within a few minutes the problem recurs.