DIGITAL SIGNITURE NOT ALLOWED?

You need to apply full special rights to the PDF using the LiveCycle ES server product. You will have to contact Adobe about pricing, but since this is a commercial server product, it will be pricey.

Hi Shane,

Fear not, you don't need to go out and spend $50,000 on a LiveCycle Document Security Server. One thing I'm a bit confused on though is, do you have access to Acrobat, or just the free Reader? If you do have Acrobat at your disposal, open the PDF file you want to sign in Reader and then select the [b]Advanced > Extend Features in Adobe Reader[/b] menu item. You'll be asked to Save the file, but once it's been Reader Enable you will be able to digitally sign the free Reader. If you don't have access to Acrobat then contact the author of the PDF file and ask them to Reader Enable the file and re-send it to you.As an aside, you didn't create a "digital signature", rather you created a digital ID. The digital ID is the public-key certificate along with the corresponding private key. You use the digital ID to create a digital signature. To think of this in real world terms, the digital ID is the pen and the digital signature is, well it's the signature.

Steve

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply. I have checked and I only have the free Adobe Reader version.

The idea is that I want to digitally sign documents for work. Whether it be in Adobe or Word. We have a lot of proposal from my company which I need to sign and I though it would be better to digitally sign then email the documents onto the next relevant person, rather than printing signing, faxing or scanning. (better for the environment and more faster and convenient)

When I have looked into this it has just been very confusing and this is the stage I am at.

What would you suggest is my solution? Or do I need to pay for this feature?

Thanks in advance

Shane

Hi Shane,

Your best bet is to buy a copy of Acrobat Professional and use it to Reader Enable the files. As the person who initially replied to your post noted, there is a server based solutions for this, but it's expensive. It becomes a question of what you need. If you only need to Reader Enable a few forms (even a few per day wouldn't be that much of a stretch) then buying Acrobat is the optimal solution. If you need to do thousands of forms (e.g. the IRS or the Government Print Office) then a LiveCycle server based solution works best.

If you do go the Acrobat route, be aware that Acrobat Standard doesn't have the capability to Reader Enable a file. You have to get Acrobat Professional.

Steve

You will probably also need to purchase a digital ID, so your signature can be verified by other users. Acrobat's self-signing system allows you to make a free ID, but it's not verifiable unless you distribute your public key to everyone who receives your files and get them to install your key into their certificates manager. Without verification, everyone downstream will see a warning message that the signature is invalid.

Digital IDs for signing PDFs are a lot more expensive than the usual email-encryption IDs, and you can expect to pay a few hundred dollars a year for each one.

Can anyone pls provide the link of the powerpoint format to guide use on how to create pdf document to include digital signature?