When You Want to Merge or Compress a Password-Protected PDF
Key points
- Remove the password
- Open another tool
- Save
Password-protected PDFs cannot be used as they are in tools such as merge or compress.
Steps
- Remove the password first in Remove a Password from a PDF and save.
- Use the saved PDF in Merge PDFs or Compress PDF.
Tools that go well with this
- Add a Password to a PDF: Add a password needed to open a PDF.
- Merge PDFs: Combine several PDF files into one, in the order you choose.
- Compress PDF: Shrink a PDF to fit under a size you choose, for upload limits.