Help with Printing

Help with Printing

Using Your Browser's "Print" function

Use your browser's Print function for printing a table of contents, a list of titles in a search result, a single Abstract, or a list of selected Abstract. To print full articles, you will get the best results by printing the version found by clicking on the "Reprint (PDF) Version of this article" link, as described below.

To use this Print function, select Print under the File menu.

Tips for Using Adobe Acrobat

To view the PDF version of an article, click on the [Reprint (PDF) Version of this article] link. If the Acrobat Reader is present on your hard disk and if your browser is configured to open PDF files in Acrobat, you will retrieve a version of the article that looks very much like the article in the printed Journal. Select Print under Acrobat's File menu to print this version.
PDF files are very large and retrieving them may take several minutes. The speed depends primarily on the speed of your network connection, the volume of Internet traffic, and the speed of your own computer. You must display the PDF version in the Acrobat Reader before it can be printed.
Because PDF files are large, you should close any open PDF documents before opening a new one to avoid memory limitations.
The Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to view and print articles but it does not allow you to save an article to your disk. To do this, point to [Reprint (PDF) Version of this article]. Hold down your mouse button on your Mac until a new menu appears. If you use Windows, use the right button on your mouse to display the menu. Select Save this Link as.... Under Format, select Source. Type a name for the saved file and click Save.
There is a second optional way to save PDF files on your disk. When you download a PDF file, your browser stores a temporary copy of the file on your hard disk; this file is automatically deleted when you quit. Using your computer's Search or Find File function, locate the file(s) you wish to save (the name(s) will end in pdf) and move them to another folder/directory on your hard disk before quitting your browser.

Obtaining and Configuring Adobe Acrobat

The "Reprint (PDF) Version of this article" in bmj.com articles is a PDF (Portable Document Format) file. This version can be viewed and printed using any program that can open and print PDF files. We suggest using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Adobe Acrobat Reader allows you to view and print bmj.com articles in PDF format.

1. The Acrobat Reader is available from the Free Adobe Acrobat Reader Software page. Follow the instructions on that page to download and install the software.

After you have downloaded and installed the Acrobat Reader software, you need to configure your browser to open PDF files with it:

2. Go to Edit menu/Preferences/Navigator/Applications.

3. Click the New (or New Type) button in the Applications window. Enter the following information:

Description	`PDF`
MIME Type	`application/pdf`
Suffixes, or Extension	`pdf`
Application	Select your copy of Adobe Acrobat. (Select "Launch Application", if available)