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Digital signature does not show up when inserted in PDF portfolio

vasilsev
Registered: Jul 11 2011
Posts: 1

I certified with visible signature a drawing and saved it to a separate file in Adobe Acrobat X. Once I open the file, the signature shows up correctly.
 
I follow the same procedure with the rest of the sheets.
 
I assemble all the sheets together in a PDF portfolio.
 
When I open any one of the drawings from the portfolio, there is light blue shading over the area where my signature should be, but no signature is displayed.
 
When I print this document, it does print out with the signature as well. Basically, I just cannot see it on the computer screen.
 
So, if I open the file separately before I assemble the PDF portfolio, it shows the signature. After I put it in the portfolio, it prints the signature but it shows the blue shading in its place on the computer screen.
 
Any advice, help?
 
Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 10.0, Windows
smadwin
Expert
Registered: Jul 10 2009
Posts: 40
Hi Vasilsev,

We changed this behavior in the just released version 10.1. If you select the Help > Check for Updates menu item and run the updater you will see the certifying signature in the child document.The behavior you are seeing was by design. We didn't want the author of one certified document to give his imprimatur to all of the other disparate files within the the portfolio collection. However, the number of requests we received to modify the behavior convinced us to make the change.

Steve

Steven Madwin
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