So I installed the PDFCreator and as I discovered in Printer - Options - Formats - PDF - Security, it is too!
But unfortunately, somehow (for me) dont work ... :-(
On the card I have in the Disable action unmarked only print the document, the action selected Allow only print in low resolution.
In the resulting PDF document, but cool I will copy text ...
Interesting but also on the Security tab of the possibility of password protection - you can only choose one or the other (I have chosen the second), but nowhere is where the password is entered.
Otherwise, the General tab, I selected the compatibility of 6.0.
Please do not know what to do? ...
Hello,
you enable password protection in the PDF settings and then print a file. Then PDFCreator will ask to you give a password for the given document.
There are two password types: user and owner. The user password will enable the user to open the file and (if enable) print it etc. The owner password allows editing the PDF, i.e. changing permissions or printing even if printing is disabled for users.
kind regards,
Philip
Hi - thanks for this fantastic utility. I have a related question to the original post, and is maybe the same problem.
When I set PDF Creator to auto-save *and* security is turned on for PDF files, PDF Creator does not ask or prompt for PDF passwords but saves with secutiry enabled, but blank passwords. If I turn off auto-save, it asks for passwords as expected, but with all the extra clicks you have to go through to save, then email a file. I suspect this "dont bug me" behavior is intended to be part of the convenience feature of autosave, but it doesn't fit my use case - I need to be prompted to save a password when security is enabled on PDFs - even if autosave is enabled also. Can we set up PDFCreator to either:
ask for a password every time a file is saved, even if autosave is checked
or
have a means of saving a default 'master' password that is always used even if a doc is auto-saved?
Should I be looking for a way to do this with the "Action Before Saving" preprocessor?
Thanks again!
Hello,
the auto-save was introduced for unattended PDF conversion. So it is inteded that the user is not asked for a password. Maybe this should be configurable.
But you can use a "hidden setting" to define a default password that is set for every PDF. Please have a look at the "hidden settings" section of the manual.
kind regards,
Philip
Ah, now that I understand. Does not work at all when " auto-save" - it must be turned off.
But!
Does not work with a watermark...
There's something more: Security does not work in 128bit + compatibility Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5).
Next: Security is easily removable with http://www.a-pdf.com/security/restrictions_remover.htm. Watermark is easily removable with http://www.pdfwatermarkremover.com.
No comments?.. 
I am also having trouble with the "Security". I have a word doc with a digital signature. Without security the end user can right click on the signature and an option to copy it comes up. The user can then create documents with my digital signature.
When I use security ("Disallow user to copy text") all it seems to do is remove the right-click option to copy. However, selecting the signature and CTRL C saves a copy that can be pasted into other documents.
Is this a bug?
Oops! Hold on a second... looks like it is a user problem. Doh! Sorry!
Restrictions can be removed very easy with many tools. What most tools are doing is to read the complete PDF, which is possible, because viewing the file requires no password and then create a new PDF with the same content.
The user password really encrypts the file and if it is long enough there is no way to open the file without knowing the password.
I have set security to prevent copying text and images, which works from a copy/paste perspective. However, the Adobe option Save as text still works, making the option useless.