InDesign *CAN* create PDF files with passwords but you have to explicitly add
them at creation time
On the Export menu when you select the security tab you can set a password to
open the document - a USER password - and under that is an option to set
permissions for printing etc - an OWNER password
If you leave the second option UNTICKED then it will only add a known user
password and behind the scenes add a random owner one - but then that is surely
completely expected behaviour, isn't it?? Don't have any of my reference
materials with me but I am sure this is documented well.
If you want a known owner password then at the creation stage you need to add
one but allow everything if that is what you want to achieve or if you NEED to
know the owner password later.
InDesign does NOT add a blank owner password under any other circumstances.
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> Date: 17 August 2011 17:29:30 GMT+01:00
> To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [iText-questions] Enforced, but empty ownerPassword
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> I'm writing a "discovery" tool which should let me search through assets in a
> predefined folder, network share, etc...
>
> I have different parsers configured to search the contents of different file
> types we support. Last week we decided to add a parser for PDF files. As I
> have done PDF work in the past (using iText[sharp]) so I took the task.
>
> For non-protected PDF docs and documents where the owner password has been
> set, I can open them without problems (given that I have the passwords -
> which I will).
>
> I did, however discover that certain PDF files "sort of" have an owner
> password, but not really. Adobe InDesign apparently authors PDF files with
> an empty owner password. (at least that's how it appears). Acrobat Reader
> seems to know to NOT prompt for it, but when I try to access the
> contents/reader in code, I get a "Bad Password Exception: PdfReader not
> opened with owner password" error. This implies there is an ownerPassword
> the document requires to open the file, however Acrobat Reader never prompts
> me for it.
>
> Can anyone else explain this for me? If you need a document meeting this
> condition, please let me know and I can send it to you.
>
> Thanks.
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