That is to say that, when you "click" on a page number in the INDEX-frame to the left, then an archived image of that page will be sent from the INDEX-frame to this IMAGE-frame.

Before you try to print from a browser ...

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or lower, and are having problems printing, click here.

If the video image of a page seems distorted, click here.

To print from within a browser, click anywhere within the IMAGE-frame BEFORE "activating" your printer. Clicking in this image-frame will change the "focus" of the browser, from the index frame which you just clicked to send the desired image to this frame, to this frame, which you want to print. You can then issue a print command in the usual manner, such as clicking on the printer icon on the toolbar, or using Alt-File, Print ... . (If you forget to first click in the image frame before issuing a print command, the focus will remain in the index frame which you just clicked, with the result that you will send index list to the printer.)

Note that the detail of the archive image on the printed page will be much greater than the detail you will see on your video screen. Depending upon the installation of a "Quickview Plus" or equivalent plug-in in your browser, you may be able to zoom in and zoom out on this image, if you load the image in a separate window. In Netscape, right-click anywhere within the image-frame, select "Open Frame in New Window ..." A new window will then open, with the selected image. Then, in that window, right-click the image and select "View Image [image-file-name.png]." That will load the Quick-View Plugin, from which can then zoom in and zoom out on the image, and also print it from there if you want. Internet Explorer may not have this capability.

In anycase, the files also can be manipulated and printed, certainly individually, and with better results, from within any standard image-editing software. Moreover, to print in bulk, most "page management" software programs, such as Presto! PageManager, or PageKeeper Pro, etc., will be able to print an entire subdirectory, all at once. From within such a program, one need only "drag" the directory to the printer, and it will print the files in alphabetical order.

Re: Printing from Internet Explorer 5.5 or lower--
To print a page image from a browser, first, you will need a competent browser. This includes all available browsers, except for Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or lower. (In other words, in respect of printing, the list of competent browsers includes Netscape Navigator, Opera, Mozilla, and others.) Unfortunately, it is apparent that as of IE5.5 (shipped with Windows 98 Second Edition), the Microsoft Corporation does not want the users of its browser to be able to print an industry standard file format, such as PNG. PNG stands for "portable network graphics," and in respect of browser capacity, has been universally adopted by standards committees. It is one of only three required browser formats— PNG, JPG and GIF— which browsers are required to be able to display and print. In comparison to the other two formats, the PNG format is the newest and most efficient, and it is also unique in that it is an open source format, i.e. it is an industry standard, and not a proprietary format.

In other words, whether by intentional castration, or by incompetence, Microsoft's browser, version 5.5 or lower, will allow viewing of PNG files on a video monitor, but it will not permit printing of PNG files, which again are the more efficient format for archival purposes, which again is a required and universal industry standard for browsers. In other words, if we store our images in the less-efficient (1970s compression technology) but proprietary GIF-format, which is owned by Compuserve, i.e. by our good friends George Soros, Jim Kimsey and Bill Gates, then they can, at their will, retract the proprietary licensing privilege, which they so generously extend to humanity with their proprietary licensing. Other than the less efficient and proprietary GIF format, the JPG format is the only remaining standard, and the JPG format is a "lossy" format which was specifically designed to archive the much larger color images.)

As an archivist, there was just no way in which I was going to create an archive, of material of such substantial political and social importance as this one, and then store it in a less efficient or a proprietary format, for which George Soros or Bill Gates, or anyone else, could retract the license they grant me and you, to view this important historic record, and/or to print it. So, if you want to print the files from a browser, you will first have to install a competent browser, i.e. one with capability of both viewing and printing an industry standard and required format, albeit an anti-proprietary and unrevokable one.