How to Unlock PDF on Mac OS or Windows

May 27, 2013 8:35 PM / Posted by IVAN Cook to PDF Tips
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By default, PDF documents cannot be edited and can only be viewed through a PDF viewer. Many business PDF documents are password-protected to keep from editing and copying. There are a lot of PDF editors in the market that unlock PDF files, but some will only work a kind of protection. In case you are not sure about the type of protection on your file, you need a program with capabilities to remove both. These days, it is very important to learn how you can unlock a PDF since the majority of those files, especially the business documents, will have password protection. This basically means that you have to unlock them in order to gain access to the view, print or edit the PDF content quickly and efficiently.

Below you will be introduced to a tool that can allow you to unlock your PDF on Mac or Windows PC. Rather than spending a lot of them searching for a good tool, you should try iSkysoft PDF Editor Pro for Mac (or PDF Editor for Windows). This is an efficient and simple tool that can unlock all your PDFs easily and conveniently within a few minutes. It unlocks the encrypted PDF documents and enables users to edit/convert even the encrypted PDF documents. In any case, this powerful program is capable of "unlocking" the read-only nature of your typical PDF file, such that you can now edit it as on a word processor document.

The following tutorial demonstrates how best PDF unlocker helps you unlock secured PDF. Just read the simple steps below to find out how.

Unlock PDF and Edit PDF on Mac

First, run the PDF unlocking program and the encrypted PDF document gets unlocked automatically. Then you can either edit PDF or convert PDF to other formats like Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Image, etc.

How to Edit PDF Text

• 1) Choose the "Touchup" tool in the toolbar, and double click any text in the PDF file to modify it within an editable text block.
• 2) Click the "Add Text" tool in the toolbar and click on any area on the page you desired to add, modify, or delete text to enter text, correct the error, or click the "Backspace" to delete text.
• 3) Choose an annotation tool to highlight, underline and strikethrough PDF texts, or add sticky note and drawings.

How to Convert PDF to Other Format

iSkysoft PDF Editor Pro for Mac also allows you to convert PDF to regular formats like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and among many. To do so, simply click the Convert button. A dialog will appear so you can make settings before unlock PDF and convert to your selected format.

Also see the video tutorial about how to unlock a PDF file:

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Securing PDF: Need to learn more ways to secure PDF files? Here introduces you 4 different methods for securing PDF documents.

Remove PDF Password: If your PDFs are protected by password and you want to do some editings in the PDF file, just learn this guide about how to remove password from PDF.

Convert password protected PDF: Even you can convert your protected PDF files to other editable document such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.