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Anonymous

Question

Convert Portfolio to Single PDF *HAS SECURITY FEATURES**

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
April 8, 2020
11 replies
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Hello,

Ive searched all over the community and none of the responses work. I am using Adobe Acrobat DC and was forced to combine PDF's (with electronic signatures) to a portfolio vs single PDF file due to the security features. So now, I want to be able to print to PDF, all of the files within the portfolio. It is not allowing me to do this as it prompts me to save each portfolio individually, then I have to go back and combine them again in to a regular PDF in order to email it to someone as one file.

Surely, there is a solution to this time-consuming task...

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JasonGGorman

New Participant

Thanks so much, that worked!

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Iain388216201v9u

New Participant

I've just came across this same headache and I know more people are going to be looking for the same answer. So I totally understand your problem. The simplest option here, security features or not is to:

- physically print each document individually

- then scan each physically printed document

- but scan them all back as 1 file

- do not save them individually

- share it to your Drive or whatever

- download the file / save as pdf

- then upload it or do as you will

Good luck to the people trying this nowadays! Spread some love

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30827292fbyg

New Participant

This is honestly the most annoying feature thats not very well explained. The workaround I discovered is to Print to PDF that has a security certificate related to a signature. This makes it a single PDF instead and then you can combine to a binder. Perhaps Adobe could offer a setting for organizations that want electronic signatures but they don't need the security cert.

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Pati22

New Participant

I have the exact same problem. We don't care about the security, we want to remove it but it was done by an employee who is no longer at our company so we have no clue what the password is. Did you find a solution that worked? HELP!

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Brainiac

Adobe don't have a master key or back door to password protected files.

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epberry

New Participant

There is a way to do this which I am not sure is easier or not. I opened all of my secured/digitally signed files in the Chrome browser and clicked the print button on each of them. Instead of printing, I saved them as PDFs and then combined them.

BarlaeDC

Community Expert

HI,

@epberry - which is the equivalent of removing the security.

Regards

Malcolm

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Anonymous

Extract how?

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi there

We are sorry for the delay in response. I hope you would be able to fix it by now.

If the issue still persists, please try the steps provided in the help article (https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/using/manipulating-deleting-renumbering-pdf-pages.html#extract_pages_in_a_pdf) to extract the pages from the PDF file.

Let us know if you need more help

Regards

Amal

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Anonymous

No, none of the above works cause no one is understanding what Im trying to say.

I did all of that. Because of the SECURITY FEATURES, it automatically makes you do what I said above.

try67

Community Expert

You can't have it both ways. Either the files are not secured and can be merged, or they are secured and can't be merged as a single PDF.

You can remove the security, merge them and then apply a security policy to the merged file, though.

try67

Community Expert

I've developed a (paid-for) tool that allows you to do that with a single click, but it will only work if the files are not secured and can be merged as a single PDF. You can find it here: http://try67.blogspot.com/2018/05/convert-portfolio-pdf-to-normal-pdf.html