Am Mittwoch, 3. November 2004 13:32 schrieb Tuukka Toivonen:
> I'm writing some lab exercise instructions for students.
> Since there are many of them, I haven't put the instructions
> online as PDF to save printers and paper. But I know PDF has a feature to
> disable printing, and if I could use that feature from LyX/pdflatex, it
> would be great.
>
> Is it possible to set a flag in PDF files using LyX/pdflatex or
> something else on Linux, that disallows printing in most programs?
>
> I know this is easy to work around, but the intention is not to
> stop students completely from printing the file, but just encourage that.
>
> I'm using Debian Sarge.


There is a very nice tool called pdftk, have alook at http://www.pdftk.com, 
what you do is first make youre pdf, then manipulate it using pdftk, setting 
superviser pw, printable allow, user pw, and much more nice features

Matthias

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