Step 1
Download and to install one of the Adobe Acrobat products. Adobe Acrobat Pro is used in the to follow steps, but the same process work with the other Acrobat programs. You may remote loading a free test of Acrobat Pro of the Adobe Systems Web site prior to purchase the software.
Step 2
Open the Adobe PDF document that you to want to protect. Click once on the "Open" button to launching the "Open" dialog window. lucky find the line in which the Adobe PDF is saved use the "Look in" drop-down menu. culminating point the file name and click once on the "Open" button. As the password may not be recovered if lost, to consider saving a copy of the Adobe PDF under a different name use the "Save As" option under the "File" menu.
Step 3
Click once on the "Advanced" menu and once on the "Security" option to launching a list menu of available features. Click once on the "Password Encrypt" option. Click once on the "Yes" button on the pop-up Fenestrate asking to to confirm that you to want to change the safety settings.
Step 4
Click once on the box afterwards to the "Require password" section to to activate the password options. Type the wished password in the "Document opened Password" field. Please note that you need remember this password, as there is no way to to recover it. Click once on the "OK" button to complete the protection updates.