[plug] acrobat reader and printing

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Wed Sep 6 11:59:05 WST 2000


On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:55:33AM +0800, Leon Blackwell wrote:
 
> I'm not sure about Murdoch or other Perth universities, but here
> at Curtin we are not allowed to release course material publicaly.
> (no, I don't understand it either... it's not like anyone would
> want to steal it and use it for themselves  :)
> I'm going to assume that that would be the reason for password
> protecting the PDF -- one more level of security.  We already
> password protect our unit webpages
> ( http://www.computing.edu.au/units/ ) to the outside world.  I
> expect it won't be long before we're told to password protect our
> PDFs and other files too.

I don't think there is any such restriction at Murdoch, certainly all
materials are publicly available.  Either way, I believe that password
protecting a PDF protects you from *modifying* it, not from actually
viewing it.



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