I need to secure a pdf so it cannot be edited, except for the first page.  Is this possible?

Can you secure all but one page of a pdf?  I would like the first page to be able to be edited, but the rest of the document to be protected from editing, is this possible?  If so, how?
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What do you mean by editing PDF? If you have a PDF form and want to make some form fields, in your case pages other than the first page, non-editable, you can lock the form fields on all pages other than first. You can write a JavaScript that does that, include it in the original PDF form and activate it at some point in time (like when a certain button is clicked, or certain form field gets focus). If you mean other ways of editing, like changing text on a page, you cannot protect only part of the document from that.

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