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Securing documents: Prevent printing and editing, remove hidden information

Securing documents: Prevent printing and editing, remove hidden information - Adobe Acrobat Tutorial

From the course: Adobe Acrobat Pro Cert Prep

Securing documents: Prevent printing and editing, remove hidden information

- [Instructor] Now one of the other things that we can do to protect our documents, let's get back into Protect a PDF here, is we can manage some of our security within the documents to prevent others from doing other things with it. So I'm going to remove security first of all. Let's say we don't want to prevent anybody from opening the file, we just want to protect others from being able to do other things with it. So we want this to be a view-only kind of document. So maybe we want to prevent anyone from making changes, and maybe we don't want anybody to print it out. So let's see what we can do here with Set Security Properties, and you'll see here under your document properties, there is a security tab. And you can see under document restrictions summary, we can see that printing is allowed, changing the document is allowed. And so is things like content copying, signing the documents, all that stuff is there. Let's go up to security method and we can choose, well, we want…

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