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Email mostly includes sensitive information, either in the body of the text or in the attachment, so it should be kept secure. Most companies and individuals are conscious of just how important it is to protect the content of PDFs and to encrypt PDF for email. Encrypting PDF for email is essential because of security concerns. Especially, if your email finishes up within the wrong hands or your file is downloaded on an insecure server, your most valuable data will be at risk. In that case, basic security just isn’t enough. Here, you will know the easiest way on how to encrypt a PDF file for email.
How to Encrypt a PDF File for Email
PDFelement Pro is a proficient PDF editor with a solid range of tools. The interface of the PDF is simple and designed for all sorts of business to enterprise to individual-level work. Its full suite of tools makes up one of the most used, complete, inclusive PDF editors. It includes features such as editing text, organize/merge/splitting PDFs, convert PDFs into other file formats, comment/annotate, and password-protect a PDF. The main plus point of using PDFelement is the fact that it has an inbuilt Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This means that if a PDF document is a photocopy, PDFelement recognizes it and turns it into an editable document.
Now, check out our definitive guide to encrypt a PDF for email:
Step 1. Open the PDF file
Install and launch PDFelement. From the icons displayed, hit the first 'Open files' icon, the directory window will open; use it to open the file you want to encrypt for email. When you find it, select and click 'Open' to upload it to the PDFelement for further processing.
Step 2. Encrypt the PDF for email
The file will be loaded in a few seconds, navigate to the toolbar, and hit the 'Protect' tab. Click the 'Set Password' button, the first option from the sub-menu, and the software will immediately display the 'Security' dialog box. Here, you can set an open password or permission password, or both. To encrypt a document with an open password, check the 'Open Password' checkbox and enter the password in the textbox. To set a permission password, check the 'Permission Password' checkbox, to enable the password. Enter the password in the textbox field, select and modify 'Print Permission', and 'Changes Permission'. When you are done with the changes, click the 'Save' button on the same window to encrypt your PDF for email.
Step 3: Save the PDF with the password
When the program has encrypted your PDF with a password, you need to save the changes to reflect on the document. Simply click on the 'Save' icon on the topmost menu bar.
Step 4: Email the Encrypt PDF
Now that you simply have saved the changes, you can email an encrypted PDF to the recipient. Simply go to the 'File' menu at the left-hand sidebar and click the 'Share' option, from here you can navigate to major cloud storage providers and can send an email to cloud storage platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Wondershare Cloud.
Ivan Cook
chief Editor