Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?
On 2010-04-19 18:05:30 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> The reasons not to want a document printed are quite easy to
> understand, but the mechanism is flawed. Given the setting you
> mention, you can just slap a red banner stating "Confidential, do not
> print". If it is on a corporate setting, just state it as a policy -
> and if somebody fails to comply with the policy, there should be
> sanctions.
One sometimes tries to print PDF without reading them first. This
is not with a PDF viewer, more with a printing utility such as lpr,
though. At least such utilities should honor the printable flag (in
order to protect the *user* from doing something potentially bad),
overridable by an option.
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