Acrobat 9 printing protection

Okay, I have been stumped on this question.
I need to make some pages in a PDF non-printable for lesson plans and the activities printable within one PDF. Any ideas how to make this happen? Ive looked through everything that I know so I am wondering if JavaScript would work for this or anything else.
If I could get some help with this that would be great.
Thanks.
boldizark

You might try to see if you can do this in a pdf portfolio using separate pdf permissions for the two files within the pdf portfolio. Please realize that anything anyone can usually read can be printed. There are many utilities available that do not abide by Adobe password security methods. Only DRM is foolproof at this time.

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Ref: Acrobat Printer Freezes on Save when CTL+V is used
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Hello All
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