My exact issue with Secured is that I cannot (mouse) - Select - Edit - Copy. I can Select to highlight but right-click doesn't display a menu, and Menu - Edit - Copy is greyed out.
I did File - Save As - PDF and changed the name, but that had no effect, it is still Secured.
The Save As copy added ~35K to the file, for no apparent reason. Whatever, HD space is cheap.
Yes, the Select tool is active.
This is vrerrry weird, because I have never before encountered a PDF file that I could not Select - Copy. Not that I do that very frequently, just that this is the first one ever. I don't even want to edit this file, I want to paste the text elsewhere.
IMO this is a minor UI bug. Or not exactly a bug because the software didn't do anything 'wrong' with my data, but I heard more of a 'klunk' sounf in the back of my head when I -eventually- find out 'something is wrong here because it won't do what I ask.' If I can't -do- anything with Selected text, the act of -selecting- shouldnt even be -available-. Think of it from the user point of view. I want to copy/paste something. Easy. I have Select tool active. Cool, that's default. I mouse around and highlight text. Very cool. Then I chase through the menus for a while looking for a way to do something with the selected text. I never should have been able to select in the first place because that entire effort was futile.
TIA