[skywhopper]

Obviously the printing situation has been a nightmare for everyone involved for years. That said, Microsoft et al have made me so cynical at this point that I can’t read about “protected printing”, “secure printing”, and “putting the user first” without assuming this is a way to put some DRM filters in place to make sure you don’t print out those locked PDFs regardless of what tool you’re using. I’ll be glad to be wrong.

[charrondev]

The worry there would have to be from a PDF requiring some secure signing key in Adobe Reader or something like that.

Otherwise you can always decrypt/unlock a PDF using open source software.