{"id":2102,"date":"2007-08-04T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T13:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/unlock-protected-pdfs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:49:35","slug":"unlock-protected-pdfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/unlock-protected-pdfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlock PDFs on a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2103\" title=\"Unlock locked PDFs\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/08\/title.jpg\" alt=\"Unlock locked PDFs\" align=\"left\" \/>Protected PDFs provide a good way of preventing unauthorized users from editing, copying or printing documents. However, it can be oh-so tedious when you forget the password and are locked out of doing anything. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pdfkey.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDFKey<\/a><\/strong> helps you out by allowing you to easily recover from lost editing and printing PDF passwords when working on your Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protected PDFs provide a good way of preventing unauthorized users from editing, copying or printing documents. However, it can be oh-so tedious when you forget the password and are locked out of doing anything. PDFKey helps you out by allowing you to easily recover from lost editing and printing PDF passwords when working on your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/unlock-protected-pdfs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unlock PDFs on a Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337315,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/337315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}