Partial PDF Restriction

[Mud-Dabber]

I have a fillable form (a request for services), but I want one section to be restricted to only a select group of people (e.g. via a password or??). How can I accomplish this without restricting the entire pdf?

[Dave Merchant · Accepted solution]

Not possible - security in the PDF specification is set per-document, not per-page or per-field.

Either split the PDF into separate documents, one for each group of people, or forget about PDF entirely and use web-based forms which can have whatever access controls you want.

[Mud-Dabber]

Thanks - although not what I wanted to hear.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I would make the restricted PDF separate document as suggested but then make it an attachment.

You can either:

• password protect the PDF attachment before attaching it or
• you can restrict protection on the main document to just the attachments.