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2 In the Options dialog box, Open and Save tab, click Security Options.
3 In the Security Options dialog box, Password tab, enter a password or
phrase to open the drawing. Click Advanced Options.
4 In the Advanced Options dialog box, choose an encryption provider, key
length, or both. Click OK.
5 In the Security Options dialog box, click OK.
Quick Reference
Commands
SECURITYOPTIONS
Specifies password or digital signature options for a drawing file.
View Password-Protected Drawings
To view the data in a password-protected drawing, you must first obtain and
enter the password. After you enter the password, it stays with the drawing,
even if you modify and save the drawing, unless you remove the password.
Enter a Password to View a Drawing
To view data in a password-protected drawing, you open the drawing in a
standard way and enter the password. Passwords are not case-sensitive.
Unless a drawing's properties, such as the title, author, subject, and keywords,
were encrypted when the password was attached, you can view the properties
in Properties dialog box in Microsoft
®
Windows Explorer.
A password-protected drawing may contain external references (xrefs) to
password-protected drawings. If you open a password-protected drawing that
contains xrefs, you are prompted to enter the password for the current drawing.
Then you are prompted to enter the passwords of any xrefs whose passwords
are different from a password you have entered in the current session. A specific
password that applies to a drawing or xref generally is required to be entered
once per session.
A drawing and its external references remain password-protected until the
passwords are removed. You generally should remove passwords before
performing batch operations on files, unless you are signing files.
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