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Could anyone please recomend a suitable software which is inexpensive so that I can password protect a PDF document before sending as an e-mail attachment. I've been looking at PDF Element, has anyone used this and is it successful? Your advice would be much appreciated.

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Ivor Windybottom
By Ivor Windybottom
15th Jun 2020 16:27

PDF-Xchange is pretty good, as it can do a lot more besides passwording and so you may find it worthwhile for other use, too.

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By Ben McLintock
15th Jun 2020 17:20

You can do it for free from a terminal window if you run Ubuntu.

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By elliottchandler
16th Jun 2020 00:07

If you are generating from Microsoft word or Excel or indeed any Office product you can add security when you export.

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By Elgin
16th Jun 2020 07:50

Cute PDF Professional works for me.

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BirdnCo
By BirdnCo
18th Jun 2020 10:20

PDF Annotator works very well for us.

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By pauljohnston
18th Jun 2020 10:26

winzip courier can do both on the fly. That is when you send a email with an attachment it asks if you want to zip it with a password. I believe it is 30 days free trial

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By Beach Accountancy
18th Jun 2020 10:36

PDF Mate does it for free but it's a bit clunky

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By norstar
18th Jun 2020 10:43

I use Soda PDF. They usually run deals so instead of £70 odd it's £30 but it does batch passwording too and you can put in text boxes, markups, rearrange pages, merge PDFs etc. Not to mention compressing. Pretty good.

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By alipearson
18th Jun 2020 11:10

I use NitroPDF - really easy, not too expensive and has a few more added features like digital signatures included too.

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By Arbitrary
18th Jun 2020 11:33

Cutepdfwriter?

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By KH
18th Jun 2020 15:36

On Apple Macs you get the free Preview which exports any PDF as an encrypted password-protected email

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