Many have argued that such features would be completely contrary to
what the "P" in PDF stands for. Equally, others argue that they don't
care, that they want printer control. It's certainly the case that
such features, valuable in a closed system, would be abused by people
making public documents who think that they "need" to control people's
printing activities, and in the process lock people out of actually
getting stuff on paper in the way they need.
Aandi Inston