Mastodawn

Hello Mastodon community,

I need your collective wisdom/knowledge. I’m looking for #software that allows me to open and view #pdf files on a #Linux distribution and #encrypt them with a password. I’d like to be able to not only define who is allowed to view the file at all, but also to protect specific permissions with the password (print permission, copy permission).
With #qpdf, I can configure this very easily via the terminal.
However, I need a piece of software – preferably open source – that offers this with a graphical user interface. Do you know of any such software?

What do you use to encrypt pdf files?

Many thanks in advance.

#opensource #oss #ubuntu #fedora #encryption #gui #Linux #pdf #qpdf

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ZeStig

May 27

@timbun in case sites like ilovepdf can't be used, Only office has an option to password-protect PDFs.

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tim May 27

@zstg

Thank you very much for your quick reply. Actually, uploading the file(s) somewhere isn’t an option. I’ll bear OnlyOffice in mind. I was hoping there might be a more lightweight solution. I’d really rather not have to install a whole Office suite just for this.

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AheroX May 27

@timbun
Although not FLOSS but needs to be bought, it may be worthy to have a look at:
https://code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor-help/pdf-security/

PDF Security - Master PDF Editor Online Manual

How to protect a PDF document using a password, a certificate, sign a PDF document with digital signature or redact sensitive data from a PDF document.

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john r red-horse May 28

@timbun

Like you, I typically use qpdf for setting both owner and user passwords in PDF files.

But I have also set both with the GUI-based application, PDF Studio (https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio). It isn't free and it isn't the prettiest, but it's a fair bit cheaper than the Adobe option, and it's very functional---it even includes OCR. Finally, it's local to the user's machine.

Good luck!