[WEB4LIB] IE 5.5 print preview and frames

Thomas Dowling tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Fri May 11 15:43:08 EDT 2001


> ... It's been brought to my attention that when you do a print
> preview in IE (and hence PWB) on a page with frames, the entire text of
a
> long frame is not shown, instead a scroll bar is shown on the side of
the
> frame and "page 1 of 1" is shown on the previewed page.  However if you
> print the document, you get the entire frame contents.  A search of the
MS
> knowledge base returned Article Q255966, which says simply "This
behavior is
> by design."  Am I the only one who thinks this behavior is a little
strange?
> Wouldn't it be nice if the Print Preview was actually a Preview of the
> Print?  Or am I missing something?
>

That must be why it's fixed in IE6b1 :-)

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



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