Mark up a locked drawing

Several Municipalities are requesting the PDF's be Unlocked so they can mark-up and add their stamps. Much to Engineers sealed drawings, they do not want them unlocked. I tried scanning and sending them, but they are still locked. Can a blank mark-up layer be added before or after password protecting the drawing?

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Joshua Braithwaite

Hi, In the past I've used an online service that allows you to upload a set of drawings and they can unlock them for you.

I'm not sure of penalties that could be applied when doing this but for your sanity, i usually use simplepdf com.

if quality is not an issue, I've opened a pdf in microsoft edge and then printed that to PDF and that removed security features but destroys the quality.

Shaya Birnbaum

@Dlacroix check out this post - It should solve your problem with locked drawings.

https://community.bluebeam.com/discussion/4391/locked-file-issues-me-too

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