Cheap way to password protect PDF files

[cbrunny]

Apparently not.

It's not even like I demanded an essay. Just actual reasons that make sense. Too much, I guess.

Hopefully this downplay of the other person's opinion works out for you in the future when you fail to explain something.

go away.

 

[John Connor]

People understand what a PDF document is and they understand a simple password pop up box. So its the road of least resistance.

What do you think an SFX archive does? It pops up a password box. It's not rocket science.

 

[smakme7757]

What do you think an SFX archive does? It pops up a password box. It's not rocket science.

Get a job in a corporate environment and try to send out pasword protected SFX files.

1: The email virus/spam filter will kill it (It's an exe file). Almost all corporations block such .exe files

2: If it makes it to the inbox, then users will send you an email saying there isn't any PDF attached and that they were instructed by IT to not open .exe files in email as part of their training

3: If you happened to write instructions to tell them how to open the file and that the .exe is actually the PDF then you could have saved yourself time by just encryption the PDF file.

Everything is easy between mates, but in a corporate environment there are so many rules and people are taught to not open .exe attachments. Put on top of that corporate firewalls which block such attachments and an SFX file is a reall PITA.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

You can create a standard .zip with a password if you encrypt with zipcrypto. It's weaker than aes256 but that's the trade off.

 

[Jack Abbott]

Cheap way to password protect PDF files? What do you mean by cheap? There's no such way. You have to pay if you want to password protect PDF files. The pro version of Adobe Acrobat tool is always the perfect solution. But if you just want to password protect PDF files, nothing else, you should use a 3rd party PDF protection software. There are many vendors in the market which provide such software applications. Such 3rd party paid applications don't cost you that much what Adobe Acrobat Pro tool does.

 

[Jack Abbott]

Also, you can do one thing here. You can create an archive file like ZIP or RAR using the WinRAR tool and store all the PDF files into it. After that, you can apply a password on the archive file.

 

[Elixer]

Also, you can do one thing here. You can create an archive file like ZIP or RAR using the WinRAR tool and store all the PDF files into it. After that, you can apply a password on the archive file.

Why bother posting in a ~year old thread, and not read it? This was already suggested before.

 

[PliotronX]

You can't beat the price of free and I use the personal version of PDFShaper which will do this no problem. Adware free, just a checkbox at install for yahoo search.

 

[mikeymikec]

Get a job in a corporate environment and try to send out pasword protected SFX files.

1: The email virus/spam filter will kill it (It's an exe file). Almost all corporations block such .exe files.

I was going to post this. Furthermore I've seen zip files with vbs/exe contents get removed by server-side virus/spam filters.

 

[KMFJD]

Get a job in a corporate environment and try to send out pasword protected SFX files.

1: The email virus/spam filter will kill it (It's an exe file). Almost all corporations block such .exe files

2: If it makes it to the inbox, then users will send you an email saying there isn't any PDF attached and that they were instructed by IT to not open .exe files in email as part of their training

3: If you happened to write instructions to tell them how to open the file and that the .exe is actually the PDF then you could have saved yourself time by just encryption the PDF file.

Everything is easy between mates, but in a corporate environment there are so many rules and people are taught to not open .exe attachments. Put on top of that corporate firewalls which block such attachments and an SFX file is a reall PITA.

so true i'm banging my head on my desk on my day off because it hurts so much thinking about the average corporate user....