PDF Security Settings

When creating a PDF document, you can create passwords that will prevent the PDF document from unauthorized opening, printing or editing.

You can specify a Document Open Password or/and Permissions Password.

Document Open Password	Permissions Password

A Document Open Password prevents users who do not know the password from opening the PDF document.

To set a Document Open Password:

Select Restrict opening.
In the Restrict PDF Opening dialog box, type a password and then re-type it to confirm.

The specified password will be displayed as a series of dots in the Password field.

A Permissions Password prevents the users who do not know the password from printing and editing the PDF document.

To set a Permissions Password:

Select Restrict editing and printing.
In the Restrict PDF Editing & Printing dialog box, type a password and then re-type it to confirm.

The specified password will be displayed as a series of dots in the Password field.

You can also enable or disable printing, editing, or copying your PDF document. These restrictions are set under Permissions settings.

Select Document printing if you wish to prevent the document from being printed out.
Select Document editing if you wish to prevent the document from being edited.
Select Extracting text and pictures from the document if you wish to prevent the user from copying text, images, etc. from the document.
Select Commenting and filling out forms in the document if you wish to prevent the user from adding comments or PDF forms to the document.

To change a previously set password, click Change…

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