On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:49:37AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > AFAIK, disabling printing is the main purpose - a lot of journals that post > online articles seem to prefer this, so that people will still pay for > offprints of articles. Except of course, we usually don't. I hear that KDE > 3.0 will have support for cut and paste in the PDF viewer, so that would > screw that one up anyway.
But re-enabling printing of unencrypted .pdf is a matter of less than five minutes. As others said, this is mainly an annoyance to the users of the doc and no security measure. If the publishers do not want to have the docs printed they have to say so explicitly and not by playing games. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
