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I've had success in the past using the Foxit suite to bypass Adobe's proprietary PDF restrictions. Or in many cases you can just open the PDF file in a non-Adobe reader (such as Foxit) and use a print-to-pdf tool like PDFCreator to regenerate a new PDF file from the same content, and IIRC it is devoid of a password. Josh Welker -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wilhelmina Randtke Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 1:14 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Question for Institutional Repository Folks 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 >