I want to password protect a file while making it still readable?

Question

Anyone know a program that can do this?

Answer 1

Why would making it have a password make it unreadable? A password is just to gain access to the file, it should NOT distort the file in any way.

Answer 2

depends on the type of file but the simple method is to right click on the file, choose properties and then check off the "read only" option.

Answer 3

Acrobat PDF's give you the option to password protect a file so that you choose to either open (view) it, print it or edit it.

Bare in mind that editing a PDF is not the same as editing a Word document, etc. It refers to marking it up: ie side notes, comments, etc. which means the file is pretty much "locked" for anything else.