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In the Encryption Settings dialog box, create a recipient list for your encrypted file.
Select a recipient in the Trusted Certificate pane, and click Add to move that recipient to
the Recipients list. Shift-click to highlight contiguous recipients, Control-click to highlight
noncontiguous recipients.
Note:
You are always defined as a recipient with full access.
To set levels of access for recipients:
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In the Recipients pane of the Encryption Settings dialog box, highlight the recipient or
recipients for whom you wish to set levels of access, and click User Access. You can set
different levels of access for different recipients, or you can give full access to all recipients.
User access levels
2
Click Full Access to give the recipient full access to the PDF file. This gives the recipient
general editing, commenting, and form field privileges, the ability to print at any
resolution, copying and extraction capabilities, and full content accessibility.
3
Click User Access to define a limited level of accessibility, and then click User Settings to
set the limits of accessibility in the User Permission dialog box:
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Enable Content Access for the Visually Impaired to allow document contents to be
copied, which is required to support the Accessibility feature.
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Allow Content Copying and Extraction to let users select and copy the contents of the
PDF document. This option also lets facilities that need direct access to the contents of
a PDF, such as Catalog, get to those contents.
4
Choose an option from the Changes Allowed menu to describe the kind of changes
you’ll allow users to make on the PDF document:
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None to prevent users from doing anything with the file, including filling in signature
and form fields.
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Only Document Assembly to let users insert, delete, and rotate pages, and create
bookmarks and thumbnails.
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Only Form Field Fill-in or Signing to let users sign and fill in forms, but not create them.
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Comment Authoring, Form Field Fill-in or Signing to let users do everything described
in the previous options, plus add comments.