----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Chamberlain : On another note I use Adobe Acrobat regularly and will enforce what has been : said here about the security features in the PDF file. The file has to be : created by a full version of Acrobat. ..Once he tries to open the file : he will be prompted for the password. After the file is closed if he wants : to open it again he has to provide the same password. : : Acrobat offers two levels of password security: one password for opening the : file and reading it, and another password for editing. They can be the same : or different passwords. One can easily assign one password and provide it to : the client for viewing images .. interestingly, I have a few pdf's that require passwords to open them when Acrobat attempts to open them, however when I drop the same file into the freeware program 'Foxit pdf reader' they just open - no password prompt, no limitations whatsoever I suspect the password is just an Acrobat program restriction and probably other pdf readers/editors simply ignore the password 'protection' too k