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Charles Whalley
Charles Whalley
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Set permissions as a preset

May 8, 2012 3:40 AM

Categories: Macintosh

We have a client who always needs commentable pdf files. It would be hugely time beneficial if we could set this up as a preset when producing a pdf file out of CS 5.5 InDesign - always using the same password.

 

We do not seem to be able to do this?

 

Can anybody help?

333 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: CtDave, May 9, 2012 10:37 AM
 
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  • George Johnson
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    1. George Johnson,
    May 8, 2012 5:23 AM   in reply to Charles Whalley
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    Do you mean that Reader users need to be able to comment, which for most types involves adding usage rights, or simply not restrict commenting, which involves security settings? You cannot automatically add usage rights when converting/exporting to PDF.

     
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    2. Charles Whalley,
    May 8, 2012 12:33 PM   in reply to George Johnson
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    All we need is the ability to produce commentable pdf files straight from InDesign. Without having to go back into the pdf or asking 'adobe' to add it to an email for review.

     
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  • George Johnson
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    3. George Johnson,
    May 8, 2012 12:41 PM   in reply to Charles Whalley
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    You haven't said whether the PDFs need to be commentable in Reader. If they do, then what you're wanting is not possible, although Reader 10 allows sticky note and highlight text comments without any usage rights.

     
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    4. CtDave,
    May 9, 2012 10:37 AM   in reply to Charles Whalley
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    "All we need is the ability to produce commentable pdf files straight from InDesign. Without having to go back into the pdf or asking 'adobe' to add it to an email for review."

     

    Any PDF output of InD can (as George wrote) have sticky notes or highlighting performed with Reader X.

    Any PDF output of InD can have commenting/markup done by either Acrobat Standard or Pro.

    For usage rights there is no circumventing the requisite processing by Acrobat (unless one licenses Adobe's entireprise server solution).

    Sort of TNSTAFFL eh?

     

     

    Be well...

     
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