urgent adobe help needed pls

suered

Hi guys - I have been sent a pdf doc which has no security on it - I need to save it with enhancing security - no content extraction, etc, but cannot for the life of me find out how to do this. And I have 300 students slavering for said document which I cannot release with the extra security. :eek:If anyone can post an idiot guide on how to do this, I would be SO grateful.

Thanks

Willpower?

From the file menu choose document properties, then 'security' then choose the options that suit you and then resave the document.

Curious students will probably be able to find a way around it though...

suered

Willpower, thanks - but when i do that all the options are greyed out as it was originally saved with no security settings. i've been googling like mad but they seem to cover making a doc from new, not trying to save one that is already in pdf form, but trying to up the security

culpepper

Have you tried exporting it as a different format and then remaking the pdf and saving as a new one or maybe saving it with security but changing the name of it first?
Havent tried this myself but it might be worth a try.

Willpower?

suered wrote: »

Willpower, thanks - but when i do that all the options are greyed out as it was originally saved with no security settings. i've been googling like mad but they seem to cover making a doc from new, not trying to save one that is already in pdf form, but trying to up the security

Can you change the drop down menu where if says security settings from no security to password security? That should un-grey the options for you. It work on one of my docs orignally saved with no security settings.

Keldin

I could be wrong but I don't think you can do this from Acrobat Reader or from soem of the free PDF creator programs that create pdfs by allowing you to convert a document from Word etc by printing to a pdf creating printer.
You need Acrobat full version maybe?
K

suered

:rotfl::j:eek::mad::cool::D:eek::rolleyes:

No, I don't think I'm going particularly overboard.

Note to self - just because there's an icon on your desktop in the same place as a previous icon, it DOESN'T mean that it leads to the same programme!!!! (ahem - as if you hadn't guessed, my creator and reader icons got swopped around on the upgrade)

DOH! double DOH!

Thank you both for all your suggestions - I'm going for a lie-down now.