I agree.  Once the screen, text, or picture is on the clients machine ....they have a 
copy of it.

>>Petr U. wrote:
>>> On Sat, 08 May 2004 21:00:43 -0500
>>> Anguz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  > > Do you know any solution that can help me. I've find an application named
>>>  > > HTML guard but it only work for static html pages. I need more a class or
>>>  > > function to prevent for printing.
>>> 
>>> There is _no way_ to really hide/protect html page on client side.. If someone
>>> (some knowing) would like to show your source and it's important for him, then
>>> he spend some time to break this ugly protection.
>>
>>Just to strengthen/clarify this statement, look at it this way.  The user has 
>>downloaded the data to his machine.  You don't have any control over the data 
>>after that point.  Heck, the user can just print the screen they are looking 
>>at.  How you gonna stop that?
>>
>>If you're just looking to discourage casual copying, then carry on. :-)  If 
>>it's really important, you might be able to generate non-printable PDF files, 
>>or generate images containing the desired text, or stuff like that.  Just to 
>>make copying/printing harder.


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