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Certified document and page adding actions

Laurent Merchez
Registered: Jan 14 2009
Posts: 13

Hello,
I have a document created with acrobat Professional 8, it contains 3 signature fields.
The first signature certifies the document allowing form fill changes and Page adding so the other fields can be signed by other parties. I.e. : the first signer certifies the document and the other signers agrees to the terms ...

I have 2 questions:
- is there a way to specify that only form fill in is allowed and Not page adding (when creating the document or when applying certifying signature) ? Anyway how can anybody add a page on a certified document ?
- Acrobat 7 always shows a yellow mark on the second signature after the third signature is inserted, that is confusing and we would like the document to be compatible ONLY with at least acrobat 8. Is there a way to specify that a document should not open in some version of acrobat.

with thanks in advance

Laurent Merchez

plevy
Expert
Registered: Jul 8 2008
Posts: 80
There is no separate permission for form fill and page adding BUT page adding doesn't mean adding arbitrary pages. It only covers instantiation of page templates that are already present in the certified document. This is a little-known feature that makes it possible for new pages to be added in a PDF to cover, for example, forms where some pages only apply in some cases determined at runtime. Scripts can add new pages from templates. The templates need to be added to the certified document before certification so if your document has no page templates, no new pages can be added.

You can add a script that informs the user not to use the document when opened in Acrobat 7 or earlier. The script would run as part of a document open action.