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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By : Urszula Witherell
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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By: Urszula Witherell

Overview of this book

Adobe Acrobat can help you solve a wide variety of problems that crop up when you work with PDF documents on a daily basis. The most common file type for business and communication, this compact portable document format is widely used to collect as well as present information, as well as being equipped with many lesser-known features that can keep your content secure while making it easy to share. From archive features that will keep your documents available for years to come to features related to accessibility, organizing, annotating, editing, and whatever else you use PDFs for, Acrobat has the answer if you know where to look. Designed for professionals who likely already use Adobe Acrobat Pro, this guide introduces many ideas, features, and online services, sorted and organized for you to easily find the topics relevant to your work and requirements. You can jump to any chapter without sifting through prior pages to explore the tools and functions explained through step-by-step instructions and examples. The information in some chapters may build on existing knowledge, but you are not expected to have an advanced level of prior experience. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the many capabilities of PDFs and how Acrobat makes it possible to work in a way that you will never miss good old ink and paper.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

PDF document password protection settings

When a publication is ready for distribution or being posted on the World Wide Web, we need to protect the content from unauthorized changes, copying, and—in some cases—printing. Printing of purchased .pdf publications is often restricted to enforce copyright protection. Forms especially need to be protected from altering field settings and data manipulation. The easiest way to assure that only authorized users can alter content is to set up password protection. Here are the steps:

  1. Open a .pdf document that you would like to work with.
  2. From the top menu, select the File | Properties… options.
  3. Click the Security tab at the top and review the current Document Restrictions Summary list in the lower part of the dialog box. There are none—all operations are allowed, which means that the file is not protected yet.
  4. Click the Security Method: dropdown and choose Password Security to open a dialog box...