On 3/29/2012 1:13 PM, Paul Hayden wrote: > I guess password-protecting a PDF has pros and cons. The most obvious > pro is that it makes it a _bit_ more difficult to pirate the PDF -- > someone has to remember where the password is and send it along with > the PDF. That's also the con! Two years later the buyer wonders, > "where's that damned password?" Or they can buy a cheap app to break > the password on any PDF they have. >
I just bought a PDF download of a brass quintet piece, and the work was downloaded as a zip file which included a text file containing the password. So as long as I archive the zip file and not just the PDF file, I'll be alright. However, I simply printed the PDF to a PDF printer and now I have a PDF file which doesn't require a password to open so I don't have to worry. And I didn't even need to use a major piece of software to do any of that. I won't be sharing the file with anybody so piracy isn't an issue, but I made it much more convenient for myself. I suppose I could have renamed the file and included the password in the name. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
