Hello Helge, Friday, December 2, 2005, 12:00:06 PM, you wrote:
> On linux, use xpdf which couldn't care less about permissions. I use > it to copy/paste stuff out of pdf's that are protected against > copying with acrobat. > Having "copy protection" enforced by the client is such a joke, For most technically unsavvy users it's not a joke, I'm afraid =) > just use a client that don't implement it. Anyway, there is no way > to simultaneously allow reading and prevent copying. There's no way to simultaneously enable SCREEN-reading/accessibility AND disable copying, if this is what you meant =) You can disable everything, including copying, but the document WILL be available for reading. This, naturally, might only apply to compliant viewers, such as Acrobat. Anyway, yeah, I know this "just use xpdf or whatever" trick too. But isn't a good pdf viewer supposed to implement the pdf standard to the full? Honor permissions, allow form-filling, text-copying and encryption? I think yes. -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux
