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What does "(SECURED)" mean in the title of Adobe Reader?
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I opened a PDF that I haven't looked at in a while and noticed that in Adobe Reader, the title becomes "filename.txt (SECURED) - Adobe Reader" Can someone tell me what the "(SECURED)" denotes? (Prior to today, FoxIT Reader had been my default PDF program, but due to work-related issues, I had to sw…
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It means that the file is encrypted. To quote Steven Madwin, an Adobe Employee: the application puts it in the title bar as a visual clue that the user is in an encrypted file. The default is for the application (either Acrobat or Reader) to display…
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