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"G. D. Brettschneider" wrote:
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<br>>I would like to make some Toolbars invisible in Acrobat Reader 5.0.5.
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<br>>Please don't! This is a really obnoxious thing for a document to do.
Users don't want to have to learn a new user interface for every document.
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<br>>Have you deliberately hidden the scroll-bar? -- I hate it when people
do that ...
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<br>This is exactly what I don't like in Thanh's thesis (to be found at
<br>http://www.pragma-ade.com): That you have to creep pagewise through
a
<br>document of more than 100 pages, though we're living in the hypertext
age.
<p>The initial question seems to be answered at the very end of Thanh's
<br>samplepdf.tex file (to be found at
<br><a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex</a>).
Using a pdfTeX
<br>primitive, we can get a lot of free screen space by simply saying:
<p>\pdfcatalog {%
<br> /ViewerPreferences <<
<br> /HideToolbar true
<br> /HideMenubar true
<br> /HideWindowUI true >> }
<p>But now that we're discussing ways to annoy the reader I would like
to
<br>know whether there is method to protect a portable document file (a
<br>little bit, at least) from being printed by the users.
<p>I've heard that Stephen King used that feature when publishing one of
<br>his popular novels at the internet (and of course it was hacked within
a
<br>short time).
<p>Regards,
<p>Gerolf
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With Acrobat you can password-protect your document and allow or forbid:
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printing</li>
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changing the docuement</li>
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changing or adding comments</li>
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copying text</li>
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but I do not know how to do that in pdfTeX.
<p>Peter.
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