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Sicirity Policie Show Password

mallaman
Registered: Sep 19 2008
Posts: 6

Good afternoon,
I created a Security Policies and apply it to all I create PDF's, what happens is that I forgot the password, the rule this saved on my computer .. is there any possibility to know the password?
Thank you

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.0, Windows
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Don't believe there is - Acrobat won't tell you, and the entry in the security policy file is hashed. There are several 3rd-party software tools which will remove passwords from PDFs, though they only tend to work if the document is free to open (i.e. security just stops printing and editing).