PDF contradiction?

Shmuel Wolfson sbw at actcom.com
Wed Oct 24 05:35:42 PDT 2007


It's not PDF security. It's only for comments. All of the option of the 
Security tab are not affected.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson


Art Campbell wrote:
> Always good to know about a program that totally trashes PDF security, Shmuel.
> Thanks for sharing...
>
> Art
>
> On 10/24/07, Shmuel Wolfson <sbw at actcom.com> wrote:
>   
>> What's this "shared review thing"? Is it anything more than enabling the
>> reader to add comments?
>> I still recommend using PDF-XChange PDF Viewer for adding comments. I've
>> found it to work on all PDFs including encrypted and PDFs that did not
>> have commenting allowed.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shmuel Wolfson
>>
>>
>>
>> Tammy Van Boening wrote:
>>     
>>> All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have installed Acrobat 8 Professional on my system (Windows XP, SP2)
>>> and have used the save as PDF successfully with Framemaker 7.2 to create
>>> my PDFs.  I want to be able to send out these PDFs for review to my
>>> users who have only Reader 8.0. According to all the hulla-bulloo about
>>> this 8.0 release, I can enable commenting rights in a PDF so that my
>>> Adobe Reader users can participate in shared reviews of the PDF. So, I
>>> followed the instructions to the "T" provided in the Adobe Acrobat
>>> Online Help and this is the problem:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1.)     Create the PDF.
>>>
>>> 2.)     In the open PDF, choose Comments > Enable For Commenting in
>>> Adobe Reader and save the PDF.
>>>
>>> 3.)     Start the wizard to initiate the shared review. Step 4 in this
>>> wizard is to select the PDF that is to be reviewed (natch!), so I select
>>> the PDF that I saved in Step 2, but here's the rub:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When I click Next in the Wizard after selecting the PDF, I get the
>>> following error message: the document that you have chosen cannot be
>>> sent for shared review because the security permissions do not allow
>>> modifications. Please select another document or change the permissions
>>> on this document to allow for modifications. So, I checked the security
>>> permissions and yes, the document does not allow for changing but that's
>>> because certain features must be restricted to allow for extended
>>> features in Adobe Reader. I GIVE - it's an infinite loop here. If I do
>>> change the security permissions on the doc, then the doc is not enabled
>>> for commenting by my Reader users, but if I follow Adobe's instructions
>>> to extend the features to my Reader users, then Acrobat barfs and won't
>>> let me set up a shared review - all in direct contradiction of what
>>> Adobe claims can happen.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone familiar with this apparent contraction and/or knows what to do
>>> to enable Reader users to be able to participate in a shared review?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any and all help is appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> TVB
>>>
>>>
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