

The file will open in the application you selected, and that.

Continue to hold OPTION and select the application you want to set as the default for this file. (Apple calls it the “owner” password Adobe, the “permissions” password. From the Mac Finder, right-click (or Control+Click) on the file to change the default app for and hold down the OPTION key so that the Open With menu becomes Always Open With. The password that opens a file doesn’t allow its possessor to modify a PDF’s permissions-only the owner password has that privilege. When you choose File > Duplicate and then save the file, choose File > Export > PDF, or File > Export as PDF, or hold down Option and choose File > Save As, Preview’s options in the Save dialog no longer include the password fields, replacing them with a Permissions button.Ĭlick this button, and you can separately set Require Password To Open Document at the top and Owner Password at the bottom. Any additional file controls had to be set in another program.īy adding PDF-level permission control to Preview, Apple also had to update how you set a password for the file. However, this password only controlled whether someone possessing it could open the file.

Monterey changes up the PDF permissions game, starting with the Save dialog.īefore Monterey, Preview let you set a password when you used File > Save As for a PDF file or chose File > Export as PDF.
