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Posted by Bent C Dalager on March 23, 2006, 1:57 pm
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>Greetings.
>
>mark.odonohue@gmail.com wrote:
>> In order to just "increase the barrier" to copying the pdf, it would be
>> nice to disable the "save" "save as" buttons.
>
>This is like using JavaScript to disable the context menu in Internet
>Explorer to prevent people from saving or viewing the source code of your
>web page. The only effect it has is to irritate users and make them
>switch to a more sensible web browser such as Mozilla or Firefox.
Which is a worthy cause in itself :-)
>As PDF, like HTML, is an open standard, disabling the Save or Print
>functions of the Adobe Reader will eventually cause users to switch to a
>different PDF reader that doesn't allow document authors to impose such
>silly restrictions.
While I agree in principle, I suspect it may also depend a bit on your
target audience. If there is reason to believe that a substantial part
of the audience consists of computer illiterates or even computer
phobics, then this sort of measure may be just that little bit of
complication needed to keep them from making copies.
Just pray they don't have children or are friendly with the kid
nextdoors . . .
Cheers
Bent D
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