I have a touch screen kiosk that displays a webpage and a pdf document. Can I remove the menu bar? Users must not have "save", "print" and other such features.
Update
random screenshot on flickr - I am refering to the print, back/forward, zoom bar that controls the PDF -- not the browser menu. Sorry for not beeing specific.
What Browser and What PDF viewer?
If the browser is firefox look at kiosk mode plugins for it.
Good discussion on using IE7 in Kiosk mode: http://samanathon.com/internet-explorer-7s-kiosk-mode/
If Firefox is on option for you, see this plugin:
Real Kiosk is a Firefox 2.0 - 3.0 extension that defaults to full screen, disables all menus, toolbars, key commands and right button menus. Alt+Home still takes you home
If you are running a machine with the .net framework you could throw together a windows forms app with an embedded web browser control, which gives you a little more control (how do they go back from pdf without a toolbar or a right click?)
But the quickest option that I have used (done a few touchscreens) is just using IE in kiosk mode, which is easily accomplished with command line switches, and setting that to run fullscreen on windows startup.
OK - you should be able to set up most of that in the pdf document itself.
This is going from the menus in Acrobat Pro 9: File -> Properties -> Initial View
There are some options there for: Hide menu bar, tool bars, window controls
This has been around in acrobat for a while, so most version should do it.
It is alo possible to set these programmatically if you have the right libraries, but easiest to download a demo of acrobat.
OpenOffice also has options to hide controls and forbid printing under:
File->Export as PDF->User Interface
Unfortunately, you can't modify current PDFs. You'll have to have a Word or OOorg document to export.