RE: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?

[Shea Michael EXT <Michael -dot- Shea -dot- extern -at- icn -dot- siemens -dot- de>]

Not to rain on any parades, but if I have a color printer, I should still be able to print it, right? Even so, I can copy the text out of the PDF and save it into some other application.

In the end, I don't think there is a full proof method (they keep making better fools). You can just make it increasingly difficult.

To make the above more difficult, capture the text as an image so the reader can't recover the text without OCR software.

If you want to be really twisted...remember those 3-D pictures that were so popular a couple years ago that you could only view by staring at them real close? There are/were programs out there that would generate the interferance patter needed to create them. Just run the text through one of those filters. No one will want to print it out then.

-Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada 
Subject: FW: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?



Tom...the material you don't want printed...PDF the restricted files and
make the text black on a medium red background. it will e a little tough to
read, but red prints black. 

John Posada

From: Tom Murrell 
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


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