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How to Print

Due to an unforseen change in the interaction between the latest version of the Shockwave plug-in and both Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator on the Macintosh, Shockwave content displayed in a web browser window will not print. In order to print your tables and graphs on the Mac you need to make a screen shot of the table or graph which will be saved in a picture file on the computer's hard disk. You will then be able to open the picture file(s) with SimpleText or any graphics program and print from there. This also gives you the option of taking the files with you to later be embedded in your text, or printed at another time or location or in color. To make a screen shot, simply hold down the command, shift and number 4 keys (). You will see the cursor turn into a crosshair. Use the crosshair to drag a rectangle over just the part of the screen that you want to capture. When you let go of the mousebutton, you will hear a click like a camera shutter, and a file named Picture x (where x will be a number between 1 and 10) will be saved at the root level of the hard disk. These picture files can then be opened by double clicking on them or copied in the usual way to floppy disk or ZIP disk for later use. Note that this method only lets you store 10 picture files at a time. After your tenth file you may keep taking screen shots, but the system ,will start over writing your first set of files with the new images. To avoid this, after your tenth picture, go to the hard disk and rename the Picture files to keep them from being over written by later files. Sorry for the inconvenience. Macromedia has been deluged with complaints about this problem since it started to surface last week after the release of the latest plugin.