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Does PDFTK respect PDF security flags?

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Mar 15, 20267994 views

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I have a PDF File which says that document security is enabled. It says that the only things allowed are: Printing, Content Copying or Extraction, and Content Extraction for Accessibility. I'm trying to use PDF Toolkit (PDFTK) to create a smaller version of this PDF file so that it takes up less ha…

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Agree with James: It's #1. Most *NIX tools (except for Adobe Reader) don't respect "owner" permissions at all. Do this to remove "owner" passwords (if no "user" password is set): Install qpdf. If on Ubuntu/Debian, you can use . Once qpdf is installe…

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