---
name: "podofoencrypt"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "podofo-tools"
version: "0.10.6-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/podofoencrypt"
---

# podofoencrypt(1)

encrypt PDF files and set PDF security settings

## NAME

podofoencrypt - encrypt PDF files and set PDF security settings

## SYNOPSIS

**podofoencrypt** \[--rc4v1\] \[--rc4v2\] \[--aes\] \[-u \<userpassword\>\] -o \<ownerpassword\> \<inputfile\> \<outputfile\>

## DESCRIPTION

**podofoencrypt** is one of the command line tools from the PoDoFo library that provide several useful operations to work with PDF files. It can encrypt PDF files using RC4 or AES encoding and can set PDF security settings.

## OPTIONS

- **--help**

  Display the help text

Algorithm:

- **--rc4v1**

  Use rc4v1 encryption

- **--rc4v2**

  Use rc4v2 encryption (Default value)

- **--aes**

  Use aes encryption (currently not supported)

Passwords:

- **-u \<password\>**

  An optional user password

- **-o \<password\>**

  The required owner password

Permissions:

- **--print**

  Allow printing the document

- **--edit**

  Allow modification of the document besides annotations, form fields or changing pages

- **--copy**

  Allow extraction of text and graphics

- **--editnotes**

  Add or modify text annotations or form fields (if ePdfPermissions\_Edit is set also allow the creation of interactive form fields including signature)

- **--fillandsign**

  Fill in existing form or signature fields

- **--accessible**

  Extract text and graphics to support user with disabillities

- **--assemble**

  Assemble the document: insert, create, rotate delete pages or add bookmarks

- **--highprint**

  Print a high resolution version of the document

## SEE ALSO

[**podofobox**(1)](/podofobox/1.md), [**podofocolor**(1)](/podofocolor/1.md), [**podofocountpages**(1)](/podofocountpages/1.md), [**podofocrop**(1)](/podofocrop/1.md), [**podofogc**(1)](/podofogc/1.md), [**podofoimg2pdf**(1)](/podofoimg2pdf/1.md), [**podofoimgextract**(1)](/podofoimgextract/1.md), [**podofoincrementalupdates**(1)](/podofoincrementalupdates/1.md), [**podofoimpose**(1)](/podofoimpose/1.md), [**podofomerge**(1)](/podofomerge/1.md), [**podofopages**(1)](/podofopages/1.md), [**podofopdfinfo**(1)](/podofopdfinfo/1.md), [**podofotxt2pdf**(1)](/podofotxt2pdf/1.md), [**podofotxtextract**(1)](/podofotxtextract/1.md), [**podofouncompress**(1)](/podofouncompress/1.md), [**podofoxmp**(1)](/podofoxmp/1.md)

## AUTHORS

PoDoFo is written by Dominik Seichter \<domseichter@web.de\> and others.

This manual page was written by Oleksandr Moskalenko \<malex@debian.org\> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).