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In the past month or so I’ve received several inquiries asking how to go about password-protecting PDF files — without using Adobe Acrobat.

The process of password protecting PDFs isn’t a difficult one, it just differs depending on whether you’re using a Mac or a PC.

If you own a Mac, PDFauxinfo is the program you’re looking for. (http://msyk.net/macos/pdfauxinfo/).

The wording on the site is a little confusing, but the program password-protects your PDF files like a champ.

If you use a PC, I recommend a fantastic free program called PDFCreator (http://tinyurl.com/qsp66).

PDFCreator is a little powerhouse that’ll do a substantial amount of what Adobe Acrobat does, including creating PDFs from any program that allows you to print, sending generated PDFs by e-mail, merging multiple PDFs into one file, and of course, password-protecting PDFs.