PDF Beaver - One Stop Solution to all your PDF needs

A simple possibility to convert Word to PDF is the one that offers the “Save as” function integrated in the versions published from 2007. Click on the “File” tab and then on “Save as”. You can then make other adjustments, such as optimizing the PDF document and preferably keeping it small. This is especially useful when your email provider or your favorite online tool only allows you to upload documents with a small storage size. The "Options" tab also allows you to encrypt PDF documents. If you select this option, you can set the password in a new dialog box, and then open the file. This procedure does not take long and is more than enough for most users. However, the options in Word are limited, so, for example, only complete documents can be password protected, but individual functions cannot be blocked. Also, the PDF file created by this procedure generally requires more storage space than necessary. If you want to have more control over your final PDF d...

There are two ways to protect a PDF file: owner password and user password. We will explain the purpose of each of them and show how to apply them to your PDF files. Owner Password or Permissions allows you to apply permissions to the PDF file. For example, if you do not want to allow printing of a PDF file or extracting pages, you can choose what you want to allow rather than allow and apply the owner password to the PDF file. The owner password can also be called a master password. This is what allows you to change these permissions. User or Open password allows you to require the user to enter a password even to view PDF. If they do not enter the correct password, the PDF file will not open. There are several online services for protecting PDF files, such as PDFBeaver, but if you want to add a password to a confidential document, you are probably not comfortable uploading it to an unknown service. So, in this guide we will focus on the best offline mode. We looked ...