How To Password Protect A PDF On Mac OSX Using Preview

http://www.documentsnap.com - Sometimes you need to password protect a PDF to hide it from prying eyes. This video shows you how to do it using Preview, an application already built into Mac OS X.

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hey there folks here from documents not
comment today we're going to talk about
password protecting PDFs on the mac ok
so i have a PDF open and i'm opening in
preview which is the application on the
max that will let you open images and
documents and all sorts of things so
what we want to do is we want to make
this lock so that no one else can open
it unless they have the password so that
there's a bunch of different ways an
application to do that but I'm going to
do it using the free preview that's
built in so what we're going to do is
we're going to go up to file and print
and instead of printing it we're going
to go down here to where it says PDF and
we're going to click that and we're
going to save as PDF so we're going to
re-save it as another PDF so the normal
thing comes up you know asking you where
you want to save it but there's this box
here which you may not have noticed
before called security options so before
we save the file
i'm going to click that and you can see
here we've got the option to set a
password to open the document you can
even you can even set the password 24
just printing or you can make it so that
you need a password in order to copy
text and other stuff like that
we're not gonna get fancy will just
require a password to open the document
so i'll just give it a password here and
hit OK and then we'll just call this a
locked just for the sake of argument and
i'll save it to my desktop
so i'll close this one and you can see
here now that this PDF was the original
PDF and now there's this new PDF with a
lock icon on it and that's the one we
just created so even using the thumbnail
view you can't see what's in the PDF and
when i try and double-click it to open
it i get this big red box saying the PDF
is password protected so if i type
anything in it says invalid password if
I tape the real password
it lets me in so that's really a quick
demo on how to set a password in preview
on the Mac using free tools for more
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