When I check Adobe's site, I see that "All Adobe products enforce the
restrictions set by the permissions password. However, if third-party
products do not support these settings, document recipients are able to
bypass some or all of the restrictions you set."
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WSD012A4E1-51D1-4bcd-BA9F-EF03C6F20BB6.html

I would be interested to know whether anyone has a good alternative PDF
editor to Acrobat Professional.  My hunch is that an app for editing PDFs
is most likely to have a high level of functionality, because someone
handling PDFs on a desktop will just get Acrobat Professional.

-Wilhelmina Randtke


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Matthew Sherman
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Hello Code4libbers,
>
> I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories.
> I have a file given by the a professor that I have permission to post if I
> add a note to the PDF, but the file is password locked.  Has anyone else
> run into this problem before?  Can anyone give me some advice in how I can
> edit this to add the required note to the top of the PDF?  Any advice is
> welcome.
>
> Matt Sherman
>