Migrating And Sharing Security Settings; Security Setting Import And Export; Exporting Security Settings To A File - Adobe 22002484 Manual

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Migrating and Sharing Security Settings

Note: This document was formerly an FDF user guide.
Security settings can be complex, and more importantly, they are often critical components of digital
signature and document security workflows. For this reason, it's often necessary to migrate and even share
settings across one or more machines. There are two methods available:
Security Setting Import and
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ability to import and export security settings via .acrobatsecuritysettings files, thereby enabling easier
version upgrades as well as configuration of multiple machines. The security settings import/export
features offers several advantages over FDF files:
All settings can be encapsulated in an .acrobatsecuritysettings file whereas FDF could only
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transport one setting type and a time and could not encapsulate registry settings at all.
One file can be used instead of many files.
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Trust can be assigned to imported on the fly, thereby simplifying workflows.
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Sharing Settings & Certificates with
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of setting such as trust anchors, timestamps, directory servers, and so on.

9.1 Security Setting Import and Export

Acrobat 9.0 introduces a new feature that helps users and organizations migrate existing security settings
through version upgrades and across multiple machines. Unlike FDF files, the new .acrobatsecurity
settings file supports the import and export of all settings including digital ID data, trust, server details,
signing preferences, and so on. Settings can only be exported from Acrobat but settings can be imported
by both Acrobat and Adobe Reader.

9.1.1 Exporting Security Settings to a File

Settings can only be exported from Acrobat.
1. Choose Advanced > Security > Export Security Settings.
2. Check or uncheck the settings you would like to export.
Note: Whether you export or import settings via an FDF file or an .acrobatsecurity setting file, the
actual settings are the same. Details about each individual setting are found in the FDF section
as well as elsewhere in this document.
Choose OK.
Export: One of Acrobat 9.0's major new security features includes the
FDF: FDF files are useful for importing and exporting a specific type
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