Wednesday, January 16, 2008

How to Add the Decrypt PDF Context Menu Item?

Make sure you have downloaded pdftk.
Follow all the steps in the previous post, except name the action Decrypt and replace the cmd.exe arguments in step 4 with:


C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

/C C:\windows\system32\pdftk.exe "%1" input_pw PROMPT

output "%1.decrypted.pdf"

2 comments:

PDF Lock said...

Hello,

The encryption example simply applies a user password to the selected PDF, so nobody can open it without the password. The decryption example removes all standard security upon success. Thanks a lot.

Tee Chess said...

I just followed the same that you have mentioned in the previous article and successfully added a context menu item. You have posted all the necessary steps which are easy to follow. Thanks for posting.
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