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Re: Question: To allow printing or to not allow printing of Acrobat files?
Subject:Re: Question: To allow printing or to not allow printing of Acrobat files? From:Peggy Schillinger <Peggy -dot- Schillinger -at- CMS-STL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:44:31 -0600
James Bauman wrote:
> Our department will be putting documents online (our users for years
> have
> consulted paper documentation), and we are concerned that most users
> will
> print most or all of the online documents. That would defeat one big
>
> benefit of having the documents online, of course.
Hi, Jim:
What benefit would you (your company) get by preventing me (your
customer)
from printing a copy of the documentation?
If I wanted to print something and discovered that I couldn't, I'd get
mad and say
bad things about your product. You don't want that to happen, do you?
