Amazing how many products exist purely due to Google's lack of motivation to do things right. Will be using this a lot.
Does Google Apps Script expose an API to do this though? It would be easier to download an html page from within GDocs without having to run something locally.
I haven't had a detailed look but yeah, I think most of this could be rolled into a Google App Script and made into an add-on. I actually did something similar years ago but for exporting to html for email, going through a few libraries for html and CSS manipulation and inlining.
I use it extensively to preserve images and formatting, in the pageless layout. I haven't tested it much with tables. Give it a try and file issues if it doesn't work well and I'll pass on to my agents. Thanks!
Good question, isn't it? GDocs has a "publish to web" feature, but it's vastly broken and loses formatting and image sizing and everything. It's just not priority for Google.
Does Google Apps Script expose an API to do this though? It would be easier to download an html page from within GDocs without having to run something locally.
Note that it will be a HTML plus directory of images, so you need to return an archive.
After years of trying to edit things locally and share/publish on Google Docs I gave up.
You either have to commit fully to Google Docs or sidestep. I'm sidestepping with smalldocs at this time.