The release of PowerPro 2024 brought in the feature of password protection on PDF documents generated by PowerPro. This measure has been implemented as a step towards protecting the AQF documents from fraud.

Password protection applies only when editing the PDF document using a PDF editor. Password protected PDF documents can still be printed as any other PDF document. 

The password is unknown, as the intent is to make these documents "final". 

This feature affects both AQF and Mail Merge Documents.

Should you like to disable this option, you can do so by "unchecking" the following in Configuration>Application Options>AQF