How do I Automate adding password to PDF file?

[DavidKJ]

I am trying to figure out how to automatically add a password to a PDF file when it is created. Is there anyway to do this?

 

[mlg4035]

David,

The only way I've seen so far is to create the PDF using Distiller and then set an Open password in the Security settings. I can't think of another, easy, way to do this.

What are you using to create your PDFs? 'Well, it's one louder, isn't it?...
What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?...Eleven. Exactly. One louder.'

 

[mlg4035]

David,

Another option, if you don't have Acrobat and can use the PDFMaker plug-in for MSWord to create your PDFs, then you can set the password in the Security options(in Word: 'Acrobat' menu>'Change Conversion Settings...'>
'Security' tab) before you create the file. 'Well, it's one louder, isn't it?...
What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?...Eleven. Exactly. One louder.'

 

[pquint]

You can actually merge a registry to set the password for the pdf files each time a user logs in if you are using distiller. The registry key is as follows (you just have to set the security on one machine and export the registy key below):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ADOBE\ACROBAT DISTILLER\5.0\SECURITY