Extracting Pages from a Secure PDF with Permissions

[Kutka]

If document extraction is allowed in a secure pdf, do the pages stay secure when moving to a new document? Meaning if I were to combine the document into an unsecured PDF, would the pages that are secure be the only pages secure in that document? 

[S. S]

Hi @Kutka

Hope you are doing well. 

I have found a similar thread that has certain solutions matching your question: Solved: How do I extract pages from a Secured PDF file

Please let me know if it helps you.

-Souvik.

[Kutka]

The article doesn't answer my question. There are permissions within the security section. There is an option to allow extraction. My question is with extraction, will the permissions that were on the original document follow the extracted sheets to the new document. 

[S. S]

Hi @Kutka,

If you extract pages from secured PDFs, the permissions stand void for the extracted pages, as try67 & TSN mentioned.

[try67]

There's no such thing as having some pages being secured and others not in the same file. Also, any security policy prevents extracting pages from the file, so no, that's not possible.

[Test Screen Name]

It may seem (because of confusing info by Adobe) that you can have a secure file that allows extraction. But in fact you can't, and probably just as well - indeed, the reasons you give just end up too complicated. Consider the even worse case of combining two password protected files and deciding what security results - you just can't do that. I think the user interface team worked on the assumption it was fine, and the technical team just says, no, we can't do that.