User manual

ABBYY PDF Transformer+
User’s Guide
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1. Click the arrow next to the button and select Remove Hidden Data….
2. In the dialog box that opens, select the types of data that you want to delete and click OK.
Passwords and permissions
When you create a PDF document, you can specify a password to protect the document from
unauthorized access, editing, and printing. A PDF document can be protected with a document
open password and/or a permissions password.
If a PDF document is protected from unauthorized access, it can only be opened after providing a
password that was specified by the document's author. If the document is protected from
unauthorized editing and printing, these actions will only be possible after providing a permissions
password specified by the author. The permissions password can also be used to open a protected
PDF document.
Follow the instructions below to protect a document with a password.
1. Click the button on the main toolbar or select Password Security… from
the Tools menu. The Security Settings dialog box will open.
2. If you want to protect your document from unauthorized access, select the Restrict access with a
Document Open password option.
3. Type the document open password and confirm it.
If you clear the Hide characters option, the password will not be obscured as you type
it and you will not have to confirm it.
4. If you want to protect your document from unauthorized printing and editing, select the Restrict
printing and editing with a Permissions password option.
5. Type the permissions password and confirm it.
If you clear the Hide characters option, the password will not be obscured as you type
it and you will not have to confirm it.
6.
The document open password and the permissions password must be different.
7. Select a printing restriction from the Printing drop–down list.
8. Select an editing restriction from the Editing drop–down list.
9. Select an encryption level and components to encrypt.
10. Click Save.