Signing PDF

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   I have a system that generates PDF reports that I need to sign and encrypt. What I still miss is showing a signature field on the report. I use nIndex=.oPdf.NewFormField(cSignField,6) and refers to the same field name in .oPdf.SignFile(), but it dosn't show up in Acrobat. I need a sample showing how to do this.

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einar Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 18 Mar 10 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote einar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Signing PDF Posted: 02 Oct 10 at 1:18PM
	I have a system that generates PDF reports that I need to sign and encrypt. What I still miss is showing a signature field on the report. I use nIndex=.oPdf.NewFormField(cSignField,6) and refers to the same field name in .oPdf.SignFile(), but it dosn't show up in Acrobat. I need a sample showing how to do this.

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Oct 10 at 8:14PM
	Hi Einar! If you don't get an answer here you should have a look here, too: http://help.quickpdflibrary.com/? Cheers, Ingo

einar Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 18 Mar 10 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote einar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Oct 10 at 11:24PM
	I don't get this right, so I try to explain further. I have a sequence that goes like this: nIndex=.oPdf.NewFormField(cSignField,6) .oPdf.SetFormFieldBounds(nIndex,this.GetKolPos(1),this.GetRadPos(58),200,48) .oPDF.SaveToFile(tempfile) nRes=.oPDF.SignFile(tempfile, '',cSignField,.RapportFil,('Myfile.pfx'),'pass','','','') After saving to the tempfile, I have a unsigned field which I can manually sign in Acrobat. But after SignFile() my reportfile have no signaturefield. There is no error and I am sure it is written by SignFile().

einar Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 18 Mar 10 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 11	Post Options Post Reply Quote einar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 Oct 10 at 10:17AM
	I have figured out that the PDF file I have generated using Quick PDF looks fine and can be encoded, but not signed using SignFile()! I can sign it using Acrobat. The file is initially created using MS-Word and printed using a PDF printer to a template. Then it is filled with content using QuickPDF. After signing it using QuickPDF.SignFile() and reading it in Acrobat, the sign field is obviously removed. But I can sign the template using SignFile(), so what can be wrong here?

Rowan Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 10 Jan 09 Status: Offline Points: 398	Post Options Post Reply Quote Rowan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 20 Oct 10 at 2:01PM
	This knowledge base article should help you: http://help.quickpdflibrary.com/questions/101/i-digitally-signed-a-pdf-but-i-cant-see-the-signature-in-the-document Quick PDF Library adds document level digital signatures. It does not let you digitally sign form field signatures.