Password protecting PDF files?

I currently work for a hospital, and it is illegal to send e-mail out with any patient information to their own doctor unless it is protected in some way. I currently have a winrar compressing and password protecting the PDF files before they are e-mailed.

My recipiants are not computer savvy enough to unzip these, and view them.

I would like to know if their is a way to get the files password protected through print distributor and Distiller 7.0?

If I create the file using distiller manually it uses the password automaticly like it is supposed to.

Please help.

Keith,

I think we can do this using the script action, I'll check it out and get back to you.

Keith,

Sorry I was mistaken, at the moment we don't have any way to do this.

I am currently doing this with PDFTK.
I have print distributor capture the postscript file ( with the adboe postscript driver).
A batch file then converts the ps file into a pdf ( using ghostscript).
The pdf file is then applied a letterhead, and encrypted using pdftk.