FW: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?

["Martin Polley" <Martinp -at- Surf-com -dot- com>]

Not a very elegant solution--You could make all the not-to-be-printable
stuff available as PDFs only, which you could then print-protect.

But you will never be able to stop a determined person from printing
what they can see on the screen. Tools exist for breaking PDF security.
And as a last resort, they can always make a screen capture and print
from that.

HTH,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Murrell [mailto:trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:27 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?



I got a new request for a restricted web site on our Intranet this
morning. The requestors want to publish a restricted site; that is, only
a select group of people can even browse the site. That's not a problem;
we've done that in the past.

The problem is that they also want to prohibit even those few who can
browse the site from printing any of the content on the site. So far, my
experience is that if I can browse it, I can "Save As" a copy to my
local computer, and I can do anything I want to that copy. 

It seems to me that if there is a way to disable to ability to copy the
content, I can prevent content being printed. But I'm scratching my head
over how to do that.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,

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Tom Murrell
mailto:tmurrell -at- columbus -dot- rr -dot- com
http://home.columbus.rr.com/murrell/index.html Last Updated 10/28/02
--First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to
others. Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), 1420--

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