David Vielmetter

Tag: acrobat

  • Adobe Acrobat 9 blank error message

    I hate Acrobat 9. Among it’s many shortcomings is this idiotic incremental upgrade procedure, but I digress. Unfortunately many penny wise business owners don’t understand that up-to-date software is inexplicably tied to employee productivity and insist that they want to keep using that Acrobat 9 license they purchased in ’06. So as an IT guy…

  • Batch encrypting PDF documents in Acrobat Professional

    The other day a customer asked me how quickly apply some sort of protection to thousands of PDF files so that they could not be changed or printed. Challenge accepted I said. Here’s how: [requirements] Adobe Acrobat Professional [procedure] [step 1] Open Adobe Acrobat Professional. Then click File->Action Wizard->Create New Action [step 2] Expand the…