Print Screen key revived

[Thomas Dowling]

>From: Karen Perone <kperone at roc.rodman.lib.oh.us>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 2:36 PM
>Subject: Print Screen key revived

>In the April 22, 1997 issue of PC Magazine, a utility called PrintNow is
>featured in the PC Tech section. It brings back the printing capability
>(to a printer, not just the clipboard) of the Print Screen key to
>Windows 95. This could prove useful when only a portion of a web page is
>needed since Netscape doesn't allow printing of a selection of text. It
>offers a full screen print (shift-print screen) or a print of the active
>window (alt-print screen).
>
>You can download the file and find out more about it from the PC Magazine
>utilities download page at http://www.pcmag.com/download/utils/pntnow-a.htm
 or
>directly from ftp://ftp.zdnet.com/pcmag/1997/0422/v16n08.zip
>--

I was under the impression that this utility printed your screen as a
bitmapped image.  Depending on your setup, this could take a lot longer
than printing a multi-page article from Netscape's print command.

FWIW, the platform preview of MSIE 4 supports printing selected text.  I'd
be moderately suprised if it wasn't in the final 4.0 release (if not the
next beta) of both Communicator and MSIE.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu