Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers > >> and it will > >> be rather difficult to remove the watermark. > > I did not merge the layers before sending it to them. Problematic? > > Difficult to judge, since I somehow lost track of what exactly you tried > to achieve and what is the nature of the document. > > If you are simply afraid, that someone would use this document as > her/his own work That is my main concern, yes. > you could watermark the pdf and convert it to a low > resolution bitmap (as others have already suggested). If the document > was later misused, you could just show your nice, high quality printout > without watermarks to prove that you are the real author. Yes. That is what I will do next time (if applicable). I was initially not as much suspicious, and that is why I simply let a mere watermark on each page of the document. > > Another way might be to hand out that bad quality printout on some > special paper, either coloured or with rules and keep the pdf version to > yourself. It will be about as difficult to retype/recreate such a > document from paper as from retyping it from screen, which was your > first choice (disallow printing, allow screen viewing). Nice idea too. > > I think you might have gotten better replies in shorter time, if you had > been more explicit and clear about what you try to achieve. No problem, but I do not like (and want) to express my personal opinion and problems to the _whole_ community.
Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing.
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