Please help, I have forgot my master password.

[ciscozen]

I have created a document using Acrobat and assigned it a master and a user passward. I have forgatten the master passward, and I need to make changes to the document now. The original document has been since deleted, and I need a workaround or a way to get this file open in a way that I can work with it. Is there such a way and if so how?

Thanks in advance,
nfcart2

 

[jimoblak]

If you have Illustrator, you may be able to tweak the file.

 

[mlg4035]

Also, you might try opening it in an older version of Acrobat Reader(if you can find a copy of 3.0): I believe there was a bug in version 3.0 that stripped protection from protected PDFs>>> created in Acrobat 4.0 <<< when opened in 3.0.

Alternatively, there is a shareware app (&quot;Advanced PDF Password Recovery&quot that can strip the master password off a PDF file if you know the user password. Checkout:

http://www.elcomsoft.com/order.html#25

or,

http://www.softpile.com/Utilities/Password_Recovery/3index0.html

The unregistered version will decrypt the first few pages of the PDF and leave the others blank. Otherwise it's $30 to register the personal version.

Cheers