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Understand that I'm not a JS programmer, but is there a command that would
move the focus to another window? In the back of my mind, something about
the onBlur handler?
Also, I mentioned this requirement to one of my developers and he suggested
embedded PDF. Combine that with enforcing all security elements of the PDF,
it might make it pretty tough.
See the following link. If you try printing the page, the PDF does not
print. Now, if the maximum security for the PDF was applied, which would
disable all the buttons and commands, what could you do with it?
In addition, if you served it up from an https server, wouldn't you prevent
placing it to your local cache?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
"Be accurate...the 4am wakeup call you prevent could be your manager's"
-----Original Message-----
From: Shea Michael EXT [mailto:Michael -dot- Shea -dot- extern -at- icn -dot- siemens -dot- de]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:51 AM
To: 'John Posada'; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: prohibit printing
Ah, but Alt + PrintScreen captures the active window and copies it to your
clipboard without using the mouse.
-Michael Shea
-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada
Subject: RE: prohibit printing
seriously...why couldn't you use the JS event handler onMouseOver. If the
viewer puts the mouse over the window, which they would need to capture the
text, the content would be replaced by different content, which could say
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