Disabling print in Frontpage.   

How do I disable printing with Frontpage?  I don't want viewers to be able to 
print images from my site.

date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:18:03 -0700   author:   Bob

Re: Disabling print in Frontpage.   

Bob wrote:

> How do I disable printing with Frontpage?I don't want viewers to be able to
> print images from my site.

If you don't want people to print your images, don't put them on a web
site. Once you put them on the web, you have no control over what people
can to with them.

-- 
Steve

Teachers should be paid more than plastic surgeons because they're more
useful. -Francine Prose

date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:49:39 -0400   author:   Steve Fulton

RE: Disabling print in Frontpage.   

I can't think of a way to prevent printing, but how about a way to print 
nothing?  IE supports the CSS @media rule, which allows you to customize the 
CSS stylesheet styles when the media is a printer, rather than the screen.  
Search the MSDN website for "@media rule" -- The first hit on my list 
provides a nice description and example.  Combine this technique with the CSS 
styles "display: none" or "visibility:hidden".  
 
If you want to be nice, when the user prints the page, you could use the 
rule technique to hide images and show some helpful text in their place, such 
as "These images are not printable."  However, I must warn you, some people 
interpret such a message as a challenge.  :-)  
 
You should also be aware that some people will right-click on the images and 
copy them to the Windows clipboard.  You can use the DHTML event 
"oncontextmenu" to intercept and disable this command.  
 
Of course, you really can't stop the persistent thief.  There are dozens of 
ways to grab images.  This is the Internet, and it's just a browser.  (sigh)

date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:13:02 -0800   author:   David Patow am