Office Applications Tutorial Guide: Protect your PDFs against online copying Internet security is essential and when it comes to …

Internet security is essential and when it comes to protecting content created by ourselves, it could be said that it certainly becomes more complicated to maintain the security of our material.

We all know that on the internet absolutely nothing is respected and if someone wants to copy something from you or duplicate certain content without authorization, they can do it with practically no consequences, but the ideal is to try to complicate things a bit, actually as much as possible.

In this way you can protect your files from the vast majority of people, in this case PDF. How can you protect your PDF files against online copying? I will teach you next two methods that you should apply to each of your files to keep them completely safe against those people who want to copy their content from you.

How to password a PDF file

The guide in question is based on the use of Adobe Reader, therefore, if you use any other tool, this tutorial obviously does not apply.

Returning to the topic, the best way to protect a PDF file is with the use of a password. How? What you have to do is open the file, then click on the file menu, you have to look for the properties option, once you do, you will have to log in with the Adobe ID.

Then go to “Properties option” and then you will see that you will be in a new window that says “Document properties”. In this place you have to look above the tab that says “Security” once you are in that tab, you have to select password security and then write one, try to make it a password that is somewhat complicated to decipher, it is useless to put “123456”.

Protect PDF files

In case you want to protect the file so that no one can edit it, you can also do it by blocking its edition in Properties, then in the permissions area and once the “Changes allowed” part is enabled, you can choose between four options that are find clearly detailed.

Not too complicated protect any PDF file against those people who want to copy information from them. Obviously in case someone wants to copy information in one way or another, sooner or later they will end up succeeding, but the idea here is the same as always, complicating things so much that the vast majority will not want to waste too much time copying the content of the file in question.