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).