Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Acrobat aggro

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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-24-2003, 03:14 AM:

Having just upgraded to Acrobat 6.0 Professional, I'm trying to modify a PDF document which was created using Acrobat 4. In the original document I set the security options to prevent modification, with password protection, before sticking it up on a website.

With Acrobat 4 and 5, the procedure for modifying such a document was to save it as a different filename, at which point you'd be asked for the password and warned that the security would be lost in the new file. Acrobat 6 just refuses to let you save it, saying that you don't have permission. If you go to document properties/security and try to remove the restrictions, it tells you that you can't do that until you delete all signatures. It won't let me delete the signature - 'Delete' in the options menu is greyed out when I select it.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance...

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-24-2003, 03:17 AM:

Email it to me and I'll convert the permissions for you.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-24-2003, 07:27 AM:

It's 28 megabytes (most of it is 600dpi scans) and I only have a dial-up modem connection. But many thanks for the offer - much appreciated.

I'm thinking that the best solution is to reinstall Acrobat 5 temporarily and then have a session stripping out the security on all the PDF files which are passworded and which I'm likely to want to modify in the future - there are only about 20-30 of them.

Acrobat 6 is a huge improvement though - the web integration is great, the distiller doesn't create millions of useless bookmarks when coverting Word to PDF and the text searching within scanned images is amazingly accurate. Worth every penny/cent.

Many thanks again.