Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:49:37AM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: > >>AFAIK, disabling printing is the main purpose - a lot of journals that post >>online articles seem to prefer this, so that people will still pay for >>offprints of articles. Except of course, we usually don't. I hear that KDE >>3.0 will have support for cut and paste in the PDF viewer, so that would >>screw that one up anyway. > > > But re-enabling printing of unencrypted .pdf is a matter of less than five > minutes. As others said, this is mainly an annoyance to the users of the > doc and no security measure.
I realize the protection is only half serious. But you'd be surprised how many "average" users don't have a clue of how to re-enable printing, copying, etc. All I wanted to know was whether encrypting was doable from within LyX, though I'm aware it can be very ineffective. Regards, Roberto
