
Acrobat 9 Family of Products
External Content and Document Security
Security Feature User Guide
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For unsigned documents, you can control JavaScript from the Preferences panel.
To block or allow execution of all JavaScript from the menu bar:
1. Choose one of the following:
Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Windows):
Edit > Preferences > JavaScript
Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Macintosh):
(Application) > Preferences > JavaScript
2. Check or uncheck
Enable menu items JavaScript execution privileges
.
3. Choose
OK
.
Figure 99 JavaScript Security option
9.4 Adobe Trusted Identity Updates
In order to facilitate workflows that use certificates, Adobe occasionally sends new certificates configured
as trust anchors to application users. These certificates allow you to validate signatures that are signed
with certificates that chain up to those trusted certificates. In other words, you can validate those
signatures without the extra steps of trusting each signer’s certificate or manually configuring another
trust anchor. These certificates are carefully selected and generally belong to major organizations such as
countries or government agencies.
The application default is to check for updates and then ask if you would like to install them. However, you
can modify this behavior as follows:
1. Choose one of the following:
Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Windows):
Edit > Preferences > Trust Manager
Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Macintosh):
(Application) > Preferences > Trust Manager
2. Configure the options as needed:
Turn the update off or on.
Turn
Ask before installing
option off or on.
Choose
Update Now
to get the latest certificates.
3. Choose
OK
.