Preview: How to set encryption to allow printing

LOL. Sorry, I don't do Adobe. I just keep flash installed just in case. I use Click2Flash otherwise. I don't do Adobe or Microsoft (just Silverlight for Netflix).

I guess Preview won't allow. I have an app called PDFKeyPro, but it requires Java and I don't want to install. Developer is working on solution.

I guess I'll wait or install on my clone.

Bryan

baltwo- You misunderstand. I am the one who wants to encrypt the file. As I mentioned, I can already do everything I want to (create an ecrypte file which allows opening/printing, but not copying) with PDFKeyPro. Pages will also create this on export. Preview, however, will only create (as it seems) an encrypted file which requires password to open. This is *less* functionality than Pages, so I was thinking there may be another way.

As for Adobe, I've long stopped using their bloatware. And as for Java, there was a recent vulnerabilty. And as for flash, the malware that infected 600,000 mac users, posing as a flash installer... I'd like to do without that as well.

Actually, the one reason I have flash installed is because with Click2Flash, you get the nice placeholder. If I uninstall flash completely, websites will throw up image ads, rather than flash ads. So with Click2Flash, I don't get the image ads. So in that regard, it helps having flash installed, but I only use it for video, and less and less sites I frequent use it. Most have HTML 5 capability.

Bryan

No. I want to create an ecrypted file.. but there are *more* options than simply encryping to require a password on open. You can encrypt the file to allow printing only (no password to open). Or enrypt it to not allow copying of contents (no password to open). Encryption isn't just for opening the file with a password. The PDFs I produce for my friend's site are encrypted, but do not require a password to open, you just can't copy/paste the contents. Actually, it's easy to bypass that encryption, but the people who she sells to are not technical and wouldn't do it anyway.

For instance, I create PDF files that are encrypted. 1. Require no password to open. 2. Require no password to print. 3. Require password to copy/paste contents.

To my point, I can create a PDF in pages and have these choices readily available. But I need the content to be in pages to create these. In Preview, I can only apply encryption to a PDF that locks the file with a password. Not exactly what I want.

Simply, if Preview offered the same encryption options as Pages, problem would be solved. So I will stick with PDFKeyPro for now.

Solved!

Bryan

To answer your question, I enrypt so that they can open and print, but *cannot* highlight text from the PDF, then choose copy, then paste it into say Pages. If you try copying/pasting text of the encrypted PDF, you get a message stating it's encrypted and to unlock it with password.

However, it's easy to get around it if you have a program, like PDFKeyPro, ironically the same app that encrypts it. But the woman I do these for says her customers are not tech savvy,and won't be able to break it. So I do what she says:)

Bryan