Re: Disabling Browser print script?

Keith,

Without looking at the site, I can pretty much guarantee you that even if
you disable right-clicking on a website to prevent saves or manage to create
another method to prevent saving, the site's images can STILL be saved. All
one needs to do is do a screen-capture with the image on-screen, load the
capture in their favorite graphics program, and trim off the excess. If the
image is too big to fit on-screen at once, it's just a matter of multiple
captures and then stitching the image back together again.

As for disabling the print function, that, too, I suspect can be done, from
something so esoteric as turning off the toolbar(s) to the browser or even
capturing [CTRL]+[P] (the most common Windows Print shortcut key combo), but
I STILL think that it CAN be done. The only way to guarantee that the images
cannot be saved or printed is to keep the site localized (not on the
internet) and to display them on a kiosk of some sort where write
permissions to the hard drives have been disabled and no printer is
attached.

Just my thoughts.
Kehvan M. Zydhek

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Saylor" <ksaylor(at)northbirding.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 14:01
Subject: Disabling Browser print script?


> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm designing a web-site for an artist. He wishes that visitors to his
> site will not be able to print images displayed on the site. I've
> added a java script to disable saving the image, however, I've no
> idea whether a java or even perl/cgi script can be written to disable
> printing from a browser. Any thoughts or suggestions would be very
> much appreciated.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Keith F. Saylor
>

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