Create secured pdf with word 2007?

Create secured pdf with word 2007?

I've downloaded the save as pdf addin for word 2997, but don't see any 
option to create the pdf with security. All I need to do is to make the 
document disabled for edits, is that possible? Also, I'm interested in 
converting using vba calls, I'm not sure if that's possible but I 
suppose so?

date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:43:54 -0700 author: amos

Re: Create secured pdf with word 2007?

The PDF add-in is a basic PDF creation tool, If you want added security, you 
will need Acrobat. Maybe when Word 2997 really is available such a facility 
will have been added? ;)

PDF security is in any case an illusion, anyone who wished to would have 
little difficulty plagiarising a PDF document he can see. It merely slows 
the process.

While it is possible to save documents to PDF (using the Microsoft add-in), 
it is not directly programmable in the way I suspect you mean.

ActiveDocument.ExportAsFixedFormat OutputFileName:= _
                    "filename.pdf", _
                    ExportFormat:=wdExportFormatPDF, _
                    OpenAfterExport:=False, _
                    OptimizeFor:=wdExportOptimizeForPrint, _
                    Range:=wdExportAllDocument, From:=1, To:=1, _
                    Item:=wdExportDocumentContent, _
                    IncludeDocProps:=True, _
                    KeepIRM:=True, _
                    CreateBookmarks:=wdExportCreateHeadingBookmarks, _
                    DocStructureTags:=True, _
                    BitmapMissingFonts:=True, _
                    UseISO19005_1:=False

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amos wrote:
> I've downloaded the save as pdf addin for word 2997, but don't see any
> option to create the pdf with security. All I need to do is to make
> the document disabled for edits, is that possible? Also, I'm
> interested in converting using vba calls, I'm not sure if that's
> possible but I suppose so?

date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:23:53 +0300 author: Graham Mayor

Re: Create secured pdf with word 2007?

The latter is possible using the .ExportAsFixedFormat command.

As far as the initial request is concerned, once you give somebody access to 
the document, you have ceded control over it.

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"amos"  wrote in message 
news:MPG.230a44651f11c44d989712@msnews.microsoft.com...
> I've downloaded the save as pdf addin for word 2997, but don't see any
> option to create the pdf with security. All I need to do is to make the
> document disabled for edits, is that possible? Also, I'm interested in
> converting using vba calls, I'm not sure if that's possible but I
> suppose so?

date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:28:03 +1000 author: Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Re: Create secured pdf with word 2007?

Thanks for that info.

There are many cases where documents need to be 'locked' as a part of 
corporate policy, for instance in the case of medical reports. In these 
cases the interest is not to preventing copying or plagiarising 
material. The idea is to provide nominal assurance that 'this' is the 
report as we issued it, and no one can accidentally alter it, or correct 
minor typos etc. If there are typos the phys is supposed to correct and 
reissue the document.

date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:21:28 -0700 author: amos

Re: Create secured pdf with word 2007?

The problem is that by providing security people tend to think that it 
actually works to secure the document. You cannot 'accidentally' alter a PDF 
file whether 'secured' or not. Security that is an illusion is not security.

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amos wrote:
> Thanks for that info.
>
> There are many cases where documents need to be 'locked' as a part of
> corporate policy, for instance in the case of medical reports. In
> these cases the interest is not to preventing copying or plagiarising
> material. The idea is to provide nominal assurance that 'this' is the
> report as we issued it, and no one can accidentally alter it, or
> correct minor typos etc. If there are typos the phys is supposed to
> correct and reissue the document.

date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:26:11 +0300 author: Graham Mayor

Re: Create secured pdf with word 2007?

In such cases, a basic .pdf should then suffice.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

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"amos"  wrote in message 
news:MPG.230acbbeaffb6735989713@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Thanks for that info.
>
> There are many cases where documents need to be 'locked' as a part of
> corporate policy, for instance in the case of medical reports. In these
> cases the interest is not to preventing copying or plagiarising
> material. The idea is to provide nominal assurance that 'this' is the
> report as we issued it, and no one can accidentally alter it, or correct
> minor typos etc. If there are typos the phys is supposed to correct and
> reissue the document.

date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:55:38 +1000 author: Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Re: Create secured pdf with word 2007?

In article <uv#mSUF$IHA.1148@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, 
gmayor@REMOVETHISmvps.org says...
> The problem is that by providing security people tend to think that it 
> actually works to secure the document. You cannot 'accidentally' alter a PDF 
> file whether 'secured' or not. Security that is an illusion is not security.
> 
> 
But you could 'clean up' or 'correct' a non-secured pdf, as I mentioned. 
I'm not sure where the lines fall in terms of legal responsibility, but 
I'm sure 'more' would be considered better, even if 'more' is not bullet 
proof.

No one would alter any behavior based on the understanding that one of 
these pdfs is 'secured' or not, at least I can't imagine why they would. 
It's just that the responsible people feel more is better.

But I admit that I don't know if the pdf being 'secured' is a legal 
requirement (medical reports). If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the 
input. And I appreciate both of your comments.

date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:50:05 -0700 author: amos