Monday, 15 July 2013

How to password-protect a PDF before e-mailing in OS X?

Description

Protecting a document containing sensitive information is very important. Thus, protecting it with password is a better option. This tutorial contains steps for protecting your PDF document with password before sending it to receiver.



















Solution:

You can send a PDF as an encrypted PDF file with a password that must be entered by the recipient before reading the PDF. You can’t find a specific option to print a document to an encrypted PDF format in OS X. But, the procedure is simple:

1. Use the PDF menu in the print dialog box and select "Open PDF in Preview."

2. To save the PDF, press Command-S.

3. In the save dialog box, click the "Encrypt" check box and give a password for the PDF, and then save it to your desktop (or similar location).

4. Now click the “Sharing” toolbar button in preview and select the “Email” option.

After this, you can easily attach the PDF to an email message.

As OS X supports an option for custom print plug-in workflows thus you can use it to encrypt a PDF directly from the PDF menu in the print dialog window. For this, open the Automator program (in the Applications folder) and follow these steps:

1. Create a new workflow.

2. Choose “Print Plugin" as the type of workflow you want to create.

3. Locate the "Encrypt PDF Documents" action and drag it to the workflow area.

4. Click the “Options” button for this action and check the option of "Show this action when the workflow runs."

5. Locate the "New Mail Message" action and drag it to the workflow, below the encryption action. Also, you can optionally use the "Add Attachments to Front Message" action, or have this in a separate workflow altogether.

Save the workflow with a name like "Mail Encrypted PDF." After you send the password to use, the PDF will create secured PDF document in a new e-mail message. For more suggestions, contact Techvedic’s computer support helpdesk, as per below contact-details:

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