Hi Cindy-

One solution would be to use the IE Tab add-on for Firefox.  This allows you
to always use Firefox, but select specific URLs that should be rendered (in
a Firefox tab) by the IE rendering engine.  You can set  Firefox to open
those resources that only work in IE in a Firefox IE Tab.

You can download IE tab here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

Best,

-David

David Rothman
Information Services Specialist
Community General Hospital Medical Library
Syracuse, NY
http://davidrothman.net



On 2/14/07, Cynthia M Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Good afternoon, gifted and knowledgeable colleagues,
>
> During the past several months, perhaps even a half year, I have had
> intermittent problems printing from PubMed when using PubMed inside IE
> 6.0.29.  A small portion of the text (probably .5 cm or less) on the
> right-hand side of the page is cut off by the page margin.   I've
> experienced the printing problem myself on several different computers and
> have received complaints from patrons using other computers on campus.
> When I've seen the problem, it  occurs whether I'm printing in landscape
> or portrait orientation and occurs whether I'm printing directly from the
> PubMed search result webpage or from the pop-up window that is opened by
> selecting "Printer" from the "Send to" menu.     The problem is not fixed
> by using print preferences to select "scale to fit."  I should emphasize
> that this is an intermittent problem.   I can have the printing problem
> consistently for 2 hours and then come back to PubMed later to find that
> the problem has disappeared.
>
> I've never had this problem when using PubMed from within Firefox, but
> I've only started using Firefox recently in an attempt to bypass the
> PubMed printing problem.  Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't work with all the
> electronic resources provided by our Library.
>
> Our institution is currently using IE 6 and  doesn't plan to switch to IE
> 7 in the near future (ITS on our campus has just about banned switching to
> IE 7).
>
> I've already consulted our Library's systems department and we've tried
> everything that the head of that department could think of.  I know of
> ways to work around the problem (e-mail results and print from the e-mail,
> save results in a My NCBI collection and then print the collection from
> within Firefox, only use PubMed in Firefox), but would like a more certain
> solution to the problem for those of our users who are committed to IE.
> I've just written to NLM customer service about the problem, but I thought
> I should try mining the wealth of knowledge available through this
> listserv also.    Have you experienced the problem described and found a
> reliable solution?  If so, I would greatly appreciate hearing about the
> solution!  If you write to me at personally, I will be happy to summarize
> for the list.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Cindy
>
> Cindy Schmidt, M.D., M.L.S.
> Reference Librarian
> McGoogan Library of Medicine
> 6006 WHM
> 986705 Nebraska Medical Center
> Omaha, NE 68198-6705
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> 402-559-7077
> or contact the reference desk: 402-559-6221, 1-866-800-5209 toll free
> outside of Omaha, [log in to unmask]
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