Many things

Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com
Sun Jan 30 19:55:48 CST 2005


On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>  and due to what it is, I don't 
> want anyone being able to modify the file, but I don't mind them printing it 
> out, I was able to do this with PDF.

But that isn't true! I can trivially take apart PDFs. I
cut'n'paste for fair-useish purposes routinely.

"Don't want" people to take files apart, I agree with you, a
well-crafted document becomes a mess. But if someone is
determined, etc. It makes for a nice disclaimer for you to not
support it post-mess, but it doesn't and can't actually stop
anyone. It's just (viewable as) a byte stream, after all.



Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>




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