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Password Protection using VB Javascript

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2007-07-23 08:50:48
Rajeshj
Registered: Jul 11 2007
Posts: 4

Is there any VB JavaScript code to check whether a PDF is password protected or not. Any version is fine. Pls. reply

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 6.0.1, Windows
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2007-07-23 10:50:55
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thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Why Yes there is. If a PDF has been encrypted using any method it has a security handler associated with it.

You can access the name of the security handler with

this.securityHandler

For no encryption this parameter will be "null".
For password encryption it will be "Standard"

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