Use Preview to secure a PDF (read only)

Hello people,
I'm looking for a way to secure PDFs with Preview, to allow read only. Normally if one tries to encrypt the PDF from the drop down save as dialog box, Preview secures the whole PDF.
Similarly Pages can export to PDF but with all necessary options (open document, print, and copy) and that's all that i need. But what if a colleague comes with an already created PDF!?
Unless i buy Adobe Acrobat Pro for this (which is not going to happen) i'm out of luck.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Andrei Dica

I was also wondering about creating 'read only' PDFs in Preview.
The Security Settings mentioned by Lardlad allow you to set passwords to open the document, to copy parts of it or print all of it, but I can't see any option to prevent it being modified (read only).

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