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--- "Susan W. Gallagher" <susan-gallagher -at- vertel -dot- com>
> why not just make the print-out worthless? Change
> the colors of
> your doc to a dark background with white, cyan, or
> yellow print.
> The document remains readable on-screen, but the
> printer produces
> nothing but a blank page.
A respectable workaround, Susan, but I've recently
just overcome that issue on a website... I simply
highlighted the text I wanted, copied it to the
clipboard and then pasted it into a word document, and
printed from there.
I also used that technique to pull together an article
made up of 4 or 5 web pages into a coherent whole for
my archives.
the thing is, if you get someone who *really* wants a
printed copy, I think the best you can do is
discourage them, not prevent them.
I find reading long or detailed articles on the
computer screen very tireing, and will do just about
anything to get a hard copy so I can actually *read*
the thing.
-Becca
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