You’ve received a PDF that’s been protected with Confidencial…now what? This tutorial walks you through what to do.
Let’s say you’re Cosmo Spacely, an employee at Spacely Sprockets. A collaborator of yours at another company, George Jetson at Example Company, has sent you a Confidencial PDF in Slack (but it just as easily could have been Teams, Outlook, Google Drive, or any other way you two exchange files). As you can see below, there are some parts of the document that are encrypted. Let’s walk through how to view those encrypted parts…
First, verify your email address with Confidencial if you haven’t done so already. You need to do this so Confidencial can ensure that protected data is made visible to the right people. The first time someone sends a Confidencial document to you, you will receive an invitation email like that below. Simply click the button in the email to create your account.
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If you’re part of an organization that is using Confidencial, you will probably not need to verify your email; simply log in to my.confidencial.io with your enterprise credentials using an organization account
With your email verified, you can now go to my.confidencial.io and log in. If you verified your email address in the previous step, you’ll automatically be taken there and logged in.
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In addition to my.confidencial.io, you can also use the Confidencial desktop app to view protected content in Confidencial files
Click PDF Protector in the sidebar menu
Click Open PDF File and select the PDF file you downloaded from Slack (or whatever messaging app George used to give you the PDF)
You can now see the PDF with the protected parts blocked off
Click View Encrypted Content in the right taskpane
The protected parts that George has allowed you to see are now visible
Note that some of the parts of the PDF are still encrypted. Sorry, those parts are for Mr. Cogswell’s eyes only!
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Congrats! You now know how to view protected PDFs with Confidencial. To see how George created this PDF, check out
Sending secure PDFs with Confidencial.
