Export pdf that is secured

I need to be able to export a pdf that is secured so that a user using Acrobat Pro cannot modify. I'm using CR2008 and .NET. Does anyone have suggestions or sample code?
Thanks,
Sean

Tim, I just noticed you need to skip keyline so it would be:
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
activate
set myDocument to active document
tell myDocument
set docInks to inks
repeat with x from 1 to count docInks
--you can skip an ink via scripting
if is process ink of item x of docInks is false and name of item x of docInks is not "keyline" then
set convert to process of item x of docInks to true
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell

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    What frustration? (Just kidding !)
    As I mentioned, one of the two charges has been refunded. Credited by
Adobe on Jan 28, I believe I received it in my bank on Jan 30.
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by my bank yet. But this can't be that much of a surprise, and has nothing
to do with "10 business days" for refunds to post.
    To this minute, "My Orders" on Adobe website shows that the order #
AD011017507 was invoiced on January 22, but that no credit invoice has been
posted against this order to this moment!
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all attempts to untangle this mess, starting within one hour of the original
order, with I believe nine different "Chats", telephone calls and, finally
a "problem" posting, stretching over more than thirteen days. Of course
it doesn't make much sense to devote this much attention to less than $50
worth of stuff, but I do not let things like this dangle.
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some real problem?
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me to extricate myself from this. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
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tell myDocument
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end tell
end tell

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Kind regards,
David
Acrobat Community Manager
Adobe Systems
Updated by dave_m_k - Jan. 11, 2012

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