On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:31:30 +0200 Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a PDF that I have blocked for printing, etc. Acrobat > Reader won't print it, because of the restrictions defined on the PDF > file's content. However, KPDF accepts printing it, and extracting > content from it, etc., even if these actions are unauthorized with > acroread. Is it normal? Anti-features like locking and password protection are not supported and, if implemented, could make the free software tools appear non-free by restricting the functionality available to the user. In this case, the needs of the user outweigh the restrictive tendencies of the writer of the original format. There are no other formats in Debian (AFAICT) which try to prevent only some documents of that format from being printed. Removal or ignoring the addition of code to support such restrictions is a feature in free software IMHO. All PDF's should be printable by free software. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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