SAS System Options

PDFPASSWORD= System Option

Specifies the password to use to open a PDF document and the password used by a PDF document owner.

Requirement:	Adobe Acrobat Reader or Professional 3.0 and later versions
Alias:	PDFPW
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement
Category:	Log and procedure output control: PDF
	System administration: Security
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	PDF
	SECURITY
	Security

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
See Also

Syntax

PDFPASSWORD=(OPEN=<">password<"> | OPEN="" < <,> OWNER=<">password<"> | OWNER="">)

PDFPASSWORD=(OWNER=<">password<"> | OWNER="" <<,> OPEN=<">password<"> | OPEN="">)

PDFPASSWORD=(OPEN=<">password<"> | OPEN="")

PDFPASSWORD=(OWNER=<">password<"> | OWNER="" )

Syntax Description

OPEN="password"

specifies the password to open a PDF document. The quotation marks are optional.

password

specifies a set of characters, up to 32 characters, that are used to validate that a user has permission to open a PDF document.

Restriction:

The OPEN password must be different from the OWNER password.

OPEN=""

specifies to reset the password to open a PDF document to null. When the password is set to null, no password is necessary to open a PDF document. This is the default.

Restriction:

Null values are not valid.

OWNER="password"

specifies the password for the PDF document owner. The quotation marks are optional.

password

specifies a set of characters, up to 32 characters, that are used to validate the owner of a PDF document.

Restriction:	The OWNER password must be different from the OPEN password.
Restriction:	Null values are not valid.

OWNER=""

specifies to reset the password used by a PDF document owner to null. When the password is set to null, the owner does not need a password for the PDF document. This is the default.

Restriction:

Null values are not valid.

Details

You can set the PDFPASSWORD option at any time, but it is ignored until the PDFSECURITY system option is set to either LOW or HIGH. When the PDFSECURITY option is set to NONE, passwords for a PDF document are not needed.