Options to Restrict Printing

I have a large .pdf document (244 pages) that I plan to make available to thousands of users as a bookmarked help document at remote locations. I would like for the users to have the ability to print small sections of the document, but want to avoid having them print a 244 page document.
Is there a way in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro or Pro Extended to allow printing yet restrict it to, say, a section of the overall document?
I know you can break a document into separate documents, but I would like to present the whole content as a single, searchable document rather than a bunch of individual documents.
Thanks.

This is from an Adobe doc entitled "Developing Acrobat Applications Using Javascript" pg 62 :
In the first example below, pages 1-10 of the document are sent to the default printer, printed silently without user interaction, and are shrunk to fit the imageable area of the pages:
this.print({
bUI: false,
bSilent: true,
bShrinkToFit: true,
nStart: 1,
nEnd: 10
You can grab this document here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html
(2nd doc in the Acrobat 8 section)

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(Optional ). To send a confirmation email to the sender after the ePrint job prints successfully, select the check box next to the email address in the Email job status column.
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Hi
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When I was the proud owner of Adobe Acrobat 8, it was SO EASY to create my own security policy, which I called "do not edit" and restricted printing and editing, so whenever I created a pdf document I would just click on "security-->do not edit" and acrobat would ask me to set the password, and then saved the document. And that was it. Now I can't seem to find for the life of me a way to create the same kind of security policy.
I tried clicking on "encrypt, manage" and created my own policy but now it asked me to set a password while creating the policy.
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