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 >