Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Manage security policies

After you create security policies, you can manage them by copying, editing, and deleting them. You can also set up a list of favorite policies so that they’re easy to access.

  1. Choose Advanced > Security > Manage Security Policies.
  2. From the Show menu, choose whether you want to display all policies that you have access to, user policies that you’ve created, or organizational policies.
  3. Select a policy and do one or more of the following:
    Note: Options to edit or delete organizational policies aren’t available unless you have administrator rights to the Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server. Changes to these policies can be made only on the Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server, which opens automatically when you select an option.

    • To create a new policy, click New.

    • To copy an existing policy, click Copy. This option is useful if you want to create a new policy that’s based on the settings of an existing policy.

    • To edit a policy, click Edit. For password and certificate policies, which are stored on the local computer, editing a policy affects only those documents to which the policy is applied after the policy is edited. For user policies stored on a server, you can edit the permission settings and other options. This option isn’t available for organizational policies.

    • To delete the policy, click Delete. This option may not be available for organizational policies.

    • To make the policy easier to get to, click Favorite. This option adds the selected policy to the Secure menu in the Tasks toolbar, and to the Advanced > Security menu. You can apply the Favorite option to multiple policies.

    A star appears next to a favorite policy. (To remove a policy from the favorites, click Favorite again.)

  4. Click Close.