[Michael Fournier]

Karin,

It is not easy, since each page is a gif or jpg file and there are over 300 pages at about 200-300K each for the B/W, and about about 1MB for the color jpg pages. You might try saving the site as a web archive with Explorer, and leave it to download all the page files overnight. Then you can read it off-line. I think there is even a setting that Explorer will download all the image files to a separate folder, but I can't remember how on the PC.

If you want to download the pages to view and print, here is what I would do. If you have a fast connection, go ahead right-click on each page thumbnail, select, save link to disk, then download all the files to a folder. This way you only download each page once directly to disk and you can start downloading the next page before the first is complete. But to download all the pages on a dial-up connection will still take a long time.

I can't say what application to use on the PC to arrange then print the pages. For those on a Mac I suggest iMediaPro. It is an image cataloguing application, and with it you can both reduce the pages at print time to letter size, and print odd then even, pages for 2-sided printing. Of course I would not recommend printing this size a book on anything less then a laser printer, and use a color printer just for the color pages. An inkjet would be rather slow and the per page cost much higher. It might be easier to try to find the book used to purchase and just use the reference on the web to check if it is something you would want. Another way, if you own the full version of Adobe Acrobat, would be to use Adobe Acrobat's web capture feature to convert the links to single PDF document. You can convert complete web sites with it. It is pretty cool. But again on a dial-up it would be slow.

Also some of the other Loomis books at the site are also available in PDF as well as HTML but Creative Illustration is only online as gif and jpg files.