RE: FN-FORUM Disable Browsering Printing

date posted 28th September 2000 09:49

Dan,

If you check out any of the actual course notes on www.freeskils.com
you will see that they fire up Acrobat Reader
(as previously mentioned) and the print options have been turned off - hard
to get around...

HTH
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Winchester [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 11:41 AM
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Disable Browsering Printing

> I think you already know the answer to this one. If the
user
> can see it, they can do what they want with it.
>
> There are probably plugins out there that will claim to
protect
> pages, but I'll give my Powerbook to the first person who
shows
> me one that can't be broken.
>
> If your client is that worried about it, why are they
putting
> them up on the web?

The client is pretty savvy and knows that ultimately they
can't protect this
info completely from printing. This is a game of politics:
the web
department want the content for the site, and the publishing
department are
happy to supply it as long as it can't be printed off.

So, the web department just want to make it difficult enough
to print that
the casual browser won't bother finding a way round it in
the hope that this
will appease the publishing department.

The fact that anyone could print it off if they just thought
about it for a
bit isn't so much of an issue at this stage.

An example of the sort of thing I'm thinking is the old
Electronic Yellow
Pages. White text on a black background in the days when
browsers didn't
print background colours. You could still select the text,
copy into Word
and print from there, but most people weren't bothered
enough to try.

Incidently, I notice on some sites text is *not* selectable.
Any idea how
this is done?

Cheers
Dan


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