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Subject:RE: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site? From:"Martin Polley" <Martinp -at- Surf-com -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:03:06 +0200
Heh. No-one will want to look at it at all...
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From: Shea Michael EXT [mailto:Michael -dot- Shea -dot- extern -at- icn -dot- siemens -dot- de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:00 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Can I Prohibit Printing From A Web Site?
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
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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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