password protected pdfs

[Gil Brodsky]

I'm pretty sure you need the full Adobe Acrobat to add passwords to pdfs.
The Save as pdf option in OS X 10.2 and above saves as "vanilla" pdf. Any special features, like indexing, copy protection, passwords, etc, require Acrobat.
One workaround might be to write a procedure that does a savepdf and then executes an Applescript routine that will open that file in Acrobat (which is Applescriptable) and password protect it with a password that is passed through from a Panorama variable.
--Gil

James Rea <jim at provue.com> wrote: > Using the custom statement printpdfs is there a way to create  
> password protected pdf's? For example assume you were printing a  
> batch of customer statements to pdf files to be e-mailed to the  
> customer. Each customer has a record in a table that includes their  
> unique password. I would like to have panorama generate the pdf file  
> in password protected format using the password that exists in that  
> customer's record. Can it be done?

Sorry, no.

There may be a unix shell tool that can add passwords to PDF files, but
I don't know of one offhand and couldn't find one in a few minutes of
google searching.

Jim Rea
President, ProVUE Development

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