title: Why does my PDF ask for a password after being retrieved from Visual SourceSafe?
body: <p>PREFACE: Yes we're moving away from VSS in the next few months.</p>
  
  <p>One of my web projects contains, as one of its files, a PDF. The PDF on our QA site is being pulled from VSS.</p>
  
  <p>A QA tester recently told me he's being prompted for a password when he tries to open it. VSS says the file I have on disk is different than the one it has, so I updated it, but afterwards it's still being shown as different.</p>
  
  <p>So basically VSS is mangling my PDF and the results are so wobbly that Adobe Acrobat Reader is confused and thinks it has a password.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried adding it as Auto-Detect and as Binary. Same results.</p>
  
  <p>Why does my PDF ask for a password after being retrieved from Visual SourceSafe and how can I prevent it?</p>