Googling the Web I found out an article by Masayuki Nii that created an application for Mac OS X Tiger. In this article I will describe in detail how to create password protected PDF files on Mac OS X by using a freely available command line utility, as well as an Automator Workflow. Besides that, my geek side wanted to get this passworded PDF option via some kind of a workaround. There are a number of tools like Adobe Acrobat that can set a password to a PDF file, but I really didn’t want to spend a couple of hundred dollars. In a number of cases I needed a bit more private PDF documents, password protection would be just enough.
The majority of my output files are generated by the nifty (especially for a long time Windows user) option “Print > Save to PDF”.
In the office I often use different word processors and text writing software applications.
