[Web4lib] IE6 problem

Tim McMahon - West Liberty Public Library tmcmahon at wlpl.org
Tue Aug 16 17:09:53 EDT 2005


Click on the frame you want printed first.  Then one of the choices to 
the left of the help menu is "Only the selected frame".  I haven't tried 
printing that way, but it should work if there isn't a bug in that feature.

Michele Haytko wrote:

>Hello all!
>
>We've found a problem when printing frames through IE6.  If anyone has
>had this problem and has found a workaround, I'd love to hear it.
>
>A patron visits a website with frames and wants certain frames.  They
>go to print preview, all frames individually.  This brings up the page
>count in the PP header.  So, you decide you want pages 3-4 and tell it
>to print those pages.  Then... nothing happens....
>
>For example, check out this page:
>http://www.mortons.com/website/htmldocs/load_frames.html?kitchen.html
>
>Go to print preview.
>
>Select "all frames individually".  Notice in the Print Preview header
>that you go from 1 page to 1-4 pages.  You'll notice the menu is pgs
>3-4.
>
>Now look at the headers of the pgs themselves.  Notice that page 1
>says "1 of 1" as does page 2.  Page 3 says "page 1 of 2" and page 4
>says "page 2 of 2".  (This is why we think the printer doesnt
>recognize it when you say print pages 3-4).
>
>We tried telling it to print pgs 1-2 only and we got all 4 pages
>(because we have 3  "page 1" hits.
>
>So Computer Gurus.... Any workarounds that you know of? Any help would
>be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>michele
>
>  
>


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