disable printing on intranet

[jdeane]

I'm looking for a way in which I can prevent users on our intranet from being able to print out certain pages, while leaving the option to print other pages.

Thanks

Jon

 

[lebisol]

prevent print of certain pages
- set those pages into a chromeless window or do a pop-up widow without a menu bar and disable the right click on them....and don't tell them to use Ctrl+P

 

[WizyWyg]

But, the pages are cached anyway, so what's the point in preventing?

 

[lebisol]

"But, the pages are cached anyway" -->this can be resloved as well by :
<META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;Pragma&quot; CONTENT=&quot;no-cache&quot;>

but at the bottm of it all...U can not make something public and hidden at the same time...but just enough for an &quot;average&quot; user.
and yes...user can take screenshots and paste/print them...and soo on
but this is the solution as far HTML perspective is concerned

 

[WizyWyg]

lebisol - acutally, that doesn't work 60% of the time. I know cause I've tried, and lo and behold, the page is still cached.

 

[Cheech]

easy solution to this is not to display the pages at all

Cheech

[Peace][Pipe]
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

[grtfercho]

jdeane: what you are asking is not possible for the very nature of web pages.
Web pages were meant to show information to everybody from a server. That is.... your browser asks for a page and the server &quot;serves&quot; the page, from there on all the information is handled by the client ( the browser in this case) you could come up with small tweaks as the one presented by lebisol(chromless window) but ultimately I can Save the page, open it in Word and print it from there or just from a local copy in my hardrive using the same IE.

Basically print/view go together if it's in the screen you can print it.
The solution?? come up with a system that shows pages to some people and shows another set of pages to the other group of people.
The idea here is: if the first set of users can't see the pages they won't be able to print them.

hopehelps.


grtfercho çB^]\..
&quot;Imagination is more important than Knowledge&quot; A. Einstein

 

[Cheech]

Question : what is the content you dont want printed? There maybe another way of protecting it.

Cheech

[Peace][Pipe]
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

[lebisol]

&quot;There maybe another way of protecting it.&quot;
....do I smell ASP

 

[deecee]

ahhh lol go ahead and put it up and ill print out a copy in 20 seconds...this topic is such a waste of time and comes up every month. It really, for some strange reason, gets under my skin. Like cheech said if you dont want people to use your stuff then keep it on your hard drive and dont publish it to the web!

sorry for the rANt...this irks me as much as questions &quot;how can i have my link change colors?&quot;

[Hammer]
Nike Failed Slogans -- &quot;Just Don't Do It!&quot;

 

[jdeane]

We are putting powerpoint slides onto the intranet so everyone can see them, we were e-mailing them to everyone but then dozens of copies would be found unclaimed around the printers.

Hence it was decided to place them onto the intranet but again copies found at the printer.

So if possible it would be great if we could show the powerpoint slides in IE but disable the print option while viewing them.

Jon

 

[Cheech]

What we do with powerpoint presentations on our Intranet is convert them to HTML (replace the standard buttons as they look crap) then open them in a chromeless window. This will not stop a determined person from printing it, but the average user who thinks they have to &quot;print to understand&quot; and then forgets they printed it is probably so IT illiterate they will not be able to figure out how to print the pages.

Hope this is a bit more helpful than &quot;not to display the pages&quot;

Cheech

[Peace][Pipe]
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

[jdeane]

Thanks for the info.

Currently the PPT files are placed on to Samba server by the team leaders and then selected from a HTML dir listing so it is all automatic.

As the data is saved by the teamleaders is there another way of being able to saving as HTML and to select it from a list of previous weeks data without intervention.

Thanks

Jon

 

[Cassien]

You could have a couple of hundred blanks pages at the foot of your main page so it makes it very frustrating to print

 

[Cheech]

only if your the network admin, the average dumb user will still print all of the pages,.

Cheech

[Peace][Pipe]
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

[WizyWyg]

So, again, nothing will prevent someone from printing anything.

 

[JimBarrett]

Have you thought about converting the presentations to acrobat pdf format? I believe you can restrict pdf files such that the user cannot print the document, and browser support for acrobat seems to be fairly good.

 

[WizyWyg]

And what prevents someone from taking a screen cap and printing that?

 

[lebisol]

the real question is:
case1____________________
do you want users to be able to see the pages but not print them
or
case2___________________
you want to not be able to see them at all (or sleceted crowd can see them
======================================================

in case1-------------------------------
you will have a lot of trouble and some solutions have been mentioned. IF you know this is only Intranet use then you know the skills of your workes and how important this info is. Bottom line is: if they want to &quot;steal-print&quot; the information they WILL do it...either by using their PC skills or even bringing their little house digital camera and taking pictures of the monitor...there are many ways to steal.....computer literate or not [ PERIOD ]
in case2----------------------------------
is very easy to set up and depends on what platforms you have avilable and what languages you know/like...but this is whole another post -ones you make up your mind people will help!
All the best!

 

[jdeane]

Tried the PDF but it becomes printable within IE

I am not interested if someone does a screen capture and prints it out, if they want it that badly they can have it.

The reason to stop print is that once it becomes available it gets printed but never collected from the printer, there can be a number of copies printed.

As it is an HR document of sorts, they get p1ssed that they are left laying around. 2 people you should never upset are HR and Finance.

The html currently just shows the directory listing if the samba folder, I will change it to open a new window with out the menu bar when a file is selected.