Preparing a Game: Copying statblocks from the PRD

[Blackbot]

Greetings,

while preparing a game recently I ran into a little problem.
I did not have access to my Bestiary and did not want to use my laptop at the table (taking up space and all that) so I decided "You know what? I ran The Confirmation and the statblocks in the Shared GM Prep-Drive were really awesome, so I think I will just copy the stuff from the PRD."

Well, to make it short: The layout did not survive copying it. It doesn't look HORRIBLE, no, but it basically loses every resemblance to the "iconic" statblocks.

Now, as linked above there seems to be a way to create statblocks looking like statblocks.
Can someone who did something like this give me some tips how to achieve it, maybe even give a template or something?
I assume it's not as easy as copying from the PRD because HTML, CSS and Libre Office don't really work together.
I did it quick&dirty by just screenshotting the PRD and mashing it together, but really - not a great way of doing things, especially if I want to upload it to the GM drive.

Help would be appreciated!
Blackbot

[Saint Caleth]

Try the other SRD sites; I find them to be perferable to the PRD for most purposes. d20pfsrd or Archives of Nethys.

I have never had a formatting problem cut/pasting from d20pfsrd and Archives of Nethys has a great search function.

[ZomB]

Paste as text only then manually format.

[Skilmar]

I've copied from PRPG Monster Advancer and pasted directly into a Google doc, and the formatting was maintained correctly. It's not official content, so you'd need to verify against the PRD or Bestiary.

[godsDMit]

Google Drive, which contains Google Docs, should allow you to copy and paste directly from the PRD to the doc and keep the formatting. At least it does for me.

Have you tried putting it straight into Google docs without going through another program first?

[Blackbot]

I'm not sure if we are talking about different things when talking about formatting.

There is a format, of course, and it's quite easy to read it, too. What is different from the "normal" format is that there's a blank line after every line (which is something easily fixable) and the loss of the lines around Defense, Offense, Statistics etc.

These are the ones I'd really like to preserver.

Also apologies when I don't answer to this thread in the next few days as I will be without a computer.
Thanks for all the tips so far, but none of them really achieved what I wanted to have :(
The Monster Advancer comes close, though. And maybe I'm just doing something wrong with Google Docs ;)

[godsDMit]

Thats what I thought you were meaning.

Just tried it in Google Docs and it didnt work, So I guess I was wrong. Hmm.

So I guess the only program I know that holds the formatting well is Microsoft Word. Sorry. :(

[Nathan Hartshorn]

My friend was having the same issue, though it fixed itself when he copied and pasted using Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, his preferred browser.