On Jul 28, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > As far as I know, OS X by itself can't create protected PDF's. In > fact, > it is a poorly kept secret that if you view a protected PDF in Viewer, What's Viewer? > and then print to PDF, that the resulting PDF often is unprotected. (A > huge security violation.) > When I print to PDF the resulting file has no selectable text portions; no longer editable unless you feed it back to an OCR. -Craig