[Sigia-l] Delivering documents for viewing only (no printing, no saving)

[Listera]

Dave:

> Some of these products though require windows to run and thus can't be
> used on non-windows systems so that point b/c moot.

The vast majority of these schemes are wrappers around the doc itself. In
other words, one can strip the wrapper to get at the doc itself in a text
editor if one knows what to look for, regardless of the executable. I'm not
saying it's Joe Sixpac-doable, just not impossible.
 
> Oh! something I have seen one company do is convert everything to TIFF
> and then have the user install a TIFF viewer as a plug-in. A bit harsh
> indeed. No temp files, the TIFFs get loaded into memory.

Huh? It must be a Windows thang.

Ziya
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