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1. Buy Adobe Acrobat.

2. Open in Adobe Acrobat.

3. Use File > Properties

4. Go to Security tab

5. Set Security method to None

6. Give password when prompted

7. SAVE the file.

6 replies

Asitha Fernando
Asitha Fernando
Participant
March 11, 2024

Go to File > Save As (give a new file name and save it)

try67
Community Expert
try67Community Expert
Community Expert
March 11, 2024

That won't work.

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frb17438726
Participant
March 22, 2022

If on a Mac, open with Preview and print to PDF.

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    November 30, 2017

    Hardly relevant, we are talking about what we see in YOUR screen shot. Not the Adobe PDF printer. 

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    Izakvdm
    Participant
    November 30, 2017

    My humble apologies....was just trying to help and misread the posters response

    The option is either Print to PDF or Microsoft Print to PDF

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      Izakvdm
      Participant
      November 29, 2017

      Open the document and the use the print to pdf function which will create a copy of your file without the password.

      You obviously have to know the password in the first place.

      It is frustrating as a lot of statements that come as protected pdfs need to be sent to institutions as proof and there is no way without buying a full copy or using password removal software.

        ~graffiti
        ~graffiti
        Legend
        November 29, 2017

        Izakvdm  wrote

        Open the document and the use the print to pdf function which will create a copy of your file without the password.

        Also not possible without the full version of Acrobat...

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        NWWolverine
        Participant
        May 11, 2017

        When needing an unprotected copy of a password protected PDF

        Open the file – and on the left side open the Page Thumbnails – highlight all of them – Go to the top, right click the first one and select “Extract Pages” then ok (don’t check any boxes). Close out of there and hit save and it’ll ask where and then it’ll save them there for you……. all unlocked.

        Hope this helped

          ~graffiti
          ~graffiti
          Legend
          May 11, 2017

          NWWolverine  wrote

          When needing an unprotected copy of a password protected PDF

          Open the file – and on the left side open the Page Thumbnails – highlight all of them – Go to the top, right click the first one and select “Extract Pages” then ok (don’t check any boxes). Close out of there and hit save and it’ll ask where and then it’ll save them there for you……. all unlocked.

          Hope this helped

          Not if you don't have Adobe Acrobat and are only using the free Reader. And if you have Acrobat, there are easier ways.

            pranavj
            Adobe Employee
            pranavj
            Adobe Employee
            January 16, 2014

            Hi Scott,

            It is not possible to save a password protected file without a password with Adobe Reader, you would require Adobe Acrobat to remove the password protection. Even with Adobe Acrobat you can only remove the security if you are aware about the password otherwise you need to contact the Author/creator of the PDF to remove the security.

            Regards,

            ~Pranav

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              Napa ScottAuthor
              Participant
              January 16, 2014

              Thanks!

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