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Removing security from multiple files at the same time

MISTY123
Registered: May 2 2008
Posts: 2

I need to remove the security that was placed on mutiple files by myself. I am trying to merge some files together, but cannot find a way to remove the security from these files, unless I remove the security from then one by one.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi MISTY123,

There is no method to remove security on multiple files at once in Acrobat. Even if you used a Batch Process and chose the No Security option, you would get a dialog asking for specific information for each individual file (such as the password). I think you are stuck with doing this on a file by file basis for now.

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
If your password is the same for all your PDFs you can use a batch sequence to unsecure them. There is an example of this in the [url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/batch_sequences.pdf]Batch Sequences[/url] samples.

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