On 4/29/05, Olin Lathrop wrote: > Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: > > Anyway, I do think that there is an option when creating > > PDF:s to disable the "Copy" option in Acrobat Reader... > > That sounds rather silly, since the information is on your disk and nobody > can control it. If Acrobat Reader insists on not allowing you to copy text, > that will only guarantee someone will write a reader that won't, and post it > on the net. The net result will be that Adobe and those people who turn on > copy protection look like horses' behinds. > That's exactly how it works! I use the open-source "xpdf" on my Linux system. Amazingly, it honors the "no-print" and "no-copy" codes, although some distributions patch the source code to remove the restrictions. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- You think that it is a secret, but it never has been one. - fortune cookie -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist