[Web4lib] Non-printable pages?

[Michael McEvoy]

Surprised no one else has pointed out, but the best solution may well be PDF.

Acrobat has versions which allow you to disable the ability to print. This
doesn't prevent screen capture, but it would prevent printing directly
from the document.

On Thu, June 22, 2006 16:24, Deborah Kaplan wrote:
- > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Jim Brucker wrote:
- >> If there is no simple solution, though, I'll probably
- >> just create the pages in Flash.
- >
- > *Please* don't!  From an accessibility perspective, Flash is a
- > complete loss.
- >
- > A print stylesheet, while easily circumventable, is the easiest
- > to change in a pinch, easiest to implement, most accessible
- > (Javascript solutions aren't as bad as Flash, but you have to be
- > much more careful than you do with css), and most elegant.  If
- > you're only interested in stopping the non-tech-savvy students
- > and the students with low initiative from printing, then a
- > stylesheet is the way to go.
- >
- > But in any case, Flash should be reserved for toys and those
- > tools which absolutely can *only* be implemented in Flash, at
- > least until they solve the accessibility issues.  Javascript's
- > problems can be worked around; Flash's can't.
- >
- > -Deborah
- > --
- > Deborah Kaplan
- > Digital Initiatives Librarian
- > Brandeis University
- >
- >
- >
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