Russ Allbery wrote: > > I think people are not understanding why users use this feature in some > environments. > / > Yes, sometimes it's a misguided attempt at DRM, but I've more often seen > it inside a workplace as defense in depth against *mistakes*. One might, > for instance, mark a document as not printable because it contains social > security numbers and salary information and it's corporate policy not to > create hard copies of the document beause of the risk of exposure of > personal information that might put the company at legal risk. > Good example. > That's not to say that Debian PDF viewers should support this the way that > Acrobat does, but for that use case, the desired UI is probably something > like a dialog box that pops up and says that the document author has > marked this PDF as not printable and asking the user if they're sure they > want to override. For this use case, such a warning would probably serve > the same purpose. > > (It may well be that some PDF viewers in Debian already implement such a > dialog.) > Nice idea, really. That is a good compromise. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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