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Jezebel Jezebel is offline
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Default How can I lock a word document before emailing it?

Three ways to defeat that:

1) Use an Acrobat clone: some of them simply ignore the security settings
(Acrobat has a warning about this on their security page).

2) Install a generic text printer, and print to FILE: -- you lose the
formatting, but you get all the text.

3) Open the PDF in an OCR app.






"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message
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Hi Chuck

Chuck Davis wrote:
Any user with Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) can edit a PDF.


A 256-bit password PDF protected for viewing only?

2cents
Robert
PS: I know there _is_ software out there supposedly able to crack the
security, but (aside from screenshots and the stuff Jezebel mentions) I
wouldn't think Acrobat itself can do so! :-)
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