When we find ourselves in need of sharing a document, a document that contains information that can only be seen by the intended recipient, the best way to avoid prying eyes is encrypting the document with a password that only the recipient knows, a password should never be provided together with the document in question.
The PDF format has become a standard on the Internet and all organizations, both public and private, make use of this format, not only because is compatible with all operating systems, but because it also offers a series of options that we cannot find in other formats, such as password protection.
Thanks to the PDF Encryption Star application, we can add a password to our documents so that they can only be read by the person to whom it is really addressed. This application not only allows us to add a password to a document individually, they also allows us to do this batch process, so that we can encrypt different documents together, without having to carry out this process one by one, with the time that it would take us.
This application also allows us edit file metadata that has been created, such as the author's name, the title, the keywords if it had ... PDF Encryption Star has a usual price in the Mac App Store of 2,99 euros, but in many cases it is available for download in free, since its developer usually runs different promotions throughout the year.
At the time of writing this article, minutes before its publication, the application is available for download for free, being an excellent opportunity to download this application to protect our documents in PDF format completely free of charge.