Mikhail Gusarov <dotted...@dottedmag.net> writes: > Twas brillig at 17:32:51 19.04.2010 UTC+02 when > luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be did gyre and gimble:
> >> Pdf "anti-features" are fake security. Don't trust on them, never. > ML> And what do you suggest if one wants some real protection _and_ the > ML> benefits of a format like PDF? Thanks. > There is no "real" protection. 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. 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.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3xvb0wi....@windlord.stanford.edu
