Posted by dorayme on 06/14/05 01:51

> From: cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com

> Don Noll wrote:
>> Can somebody tell me the script that will prevent viewers from downloading
>> or printing photos (jpg) off my web site?
>
> You can easily slice and dice the jpg into, say, 36 cells using an
> image tool such as Paint Shop, which also writes the html to put the
> picture back together again. In this case, someone would have to
> download the 36 cell jpgs and use an image tool to put them all back
> together into a single large jpg. This would not prevent downloading,
> but it would make it time consuming and beyond the ability of many.


I am sure this is true. But it is not all *that* hard. Consider my gang. I
teach my young thieves various techniques that I have found useful (btw, I
choose Band websites to teach them - they seem to like all this groovy
stuff. Ha ha! But when they are proficient I put them onto things I am more
interested in, eg. fine paintings of bowls of fruit).

One thing I tell them is this. Because they work on Macs (I insist on them
using a collection of old Macs I famously stole ages ago), they have learnt
to very precisely take screen shots of any rectangle they want.
(shift+command+4). We have some reasonable screens in our, let me say, huh
huh, *workshop*. The quality of the screens does not matter at all, it is
just a means to grab the info to send to our very nice printers, which are
available when they they are not being used to print, let me say, less
artistic material, more concrete, greener stuff, if you know what I mean...

If the pics are bigger than 1900 px across as are many print quality ones, I
tell them to *snap and scroll*, *snap and scroll*. I made up a little song
for them with these catchy lines and they sing as they *snap and scroll*.
Most pics yield to just a few such snaps and scrolls. And stitching together
is simply dead easy with layers. They soon learn.

Fagin

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