Permission options in Secure PDF

Hello,
I have created an application to create secure pdf (Encrypted PDF). I need to test whether the permission option generated for the pdf are correct or not.
How do I test that? Is there any reference document or test report which gives information about that?
For example if the resulting permisson value is say -3372 what should be the value of options in the "Document Restrictions Summary" and "Document security".
Which should be the software used to verify the permission option? In Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 and 9.0 the options are different. So is the case with Acrobat reader.
Thanks in advance.
Abhilash

The PDF Reference/ISO 32000-1 defines what the values means - that's authoritative. Just compare the values in your file with the values in the standard.
You can, of course, choose to use Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat to see what they report in their UI - but that's not always a direct match to the file format.

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