Re: Printing browse screens in Millennium

[Alma Garcia <almag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I might have missed something here (just getting back from vacation), 
but we are able to print the browse screen form our OPAC.  We use both 
Netscape and IE.

Alma

Elizabeth Thomsen wrote:
> Capturing screenshots is a very handy skill, one that we use extensively 
> for training material.  But it's certainly not a quick way of printing a 
> list, and the captured image is just that, an image, and you can't edit 
> the text or delete fields from a record to use the data for some other 
> purpose. 
> 
> On the Enhancements ballot for Database Maintenance, there's an item to
> add a Print option on browse screens, and all other screens that lack one,
> to give libraries the ability to print or capture results for various
> purposes.  I encourage your support for this one, which is doesn't sound
> very exciting, but is really important to a lot of systems for a lot of
> different reasons.
> 
> Elizabeth Thomsen
> (FE for Database Maintenance and Authorities)
> 
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Angela Kroeger wrote:
> 
> 
>>Judy Schneider wrote: "I don't think you can do this using your browser's
>>print function, but you can capture a snapshot of the screen. Use
>><alt><printscreen> the capture the screen, and then <ctrl>v (or paste) to
>>paste it into a word processor."
>>
>>Thank you very much! This is really awkward, but it is better than nothing.
>>I had several other off-list responses, all giving essentially the same
>>advice. I hope III enables browse screen printing in a future release. One
>>of the off-list respondants said that she has already submitted this as an
>>enhancement request. I'm happy to hear that.
>>
>>When I told my colleague about the paste-into-Word solution, she said
>>"You've got to be [censored] kidding!" After trying that, then she pasted
>>it into Paint instead, then edited the image to crop out the rest of the
>>screen, leaving only the actual browse list (to waste less paper while
>>printing). Still, that's an awfully cumbersome way to accomplish something
>>the text based version does with ease.
>>
>>But but at least it is possible to get the browse list onto paper, in any
>>case.
>>
>>Thank you!
>>--Angela
>>
>>=====
>>Angela Kroeger
>>akroeger@xxxxxxxxxx
>>University of Nebraska at Omaha Library, Monographic Cataloging
>>
>>
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