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Convert a Word Document (docx) to a password protected PDF file

hlucil.jiri — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:42:00 GMT

Hi, has anyone handled this challenge? 🙂

We need convert ideally directly a Word Document (docx) to a password protected PDF file.
In MS Word 2016, this option is available to the user as part of the export functions to PDF.
However, we would not want to go primarily the way of interaction with the MS Word GUI.

Thanks for the help/hint.

Jiri

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Jiri Hlucil
Blue Prism Developer
Sberbank CZ, a. s.
Europe/Prague
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RE: Convert a Word Document (docx) to a password protected PDF file

ewilson — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:08:00 GMT

Hi @hlucil.jiri,

The Word VBO available on the DX includes an action for exporting a Word doc as a PDF, but it does not include the ability to password protect the PDF. We'll have to investigate that as that ability does not appear to be included in the Word object model used by the VBO.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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RE: Convert a Word Document (docx) to a password protected PDF file

ewilson — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 16:15:00 GMT

You could perform a 2 step approach:

Export the .DOC to .PDF using the Word VBO
Password protect the .PDF using the PDF Toolkit on the DX

Or, you could just use the PDF Toolkit to handle the conversion of your .DOC to .PDF and protecting it.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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RE: Convert a Word Document (docx) to a password protected PDF file

hlucil.jiri — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 22:01:00 GMT

Thank you, Eric, for your answers.

Here on DX is also PDF processing utility - Function for Utility - PDF
Seems like it should be more affordable option for larger volumes of pdf documents that need to be encrypted.

Jiri

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Jiri Hlucil
Blue Prism Developer
Sberbank CZ, a. s.
Europe/Prague
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