Thanks very much Leonard, the form flattening serves my purpose.

Cheers
Mohan Alagurajan


Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> 
> At 11:46 AM 7/17/2006, mohan alagurajan wrote:
>>I have to display a set of PDF documents in my application, for display I
>>need to apply Watermark which is actually a Disclaimer stating that the
>>document is for viewing pupose only. The documents have acroforms,
>>acrofields, annotations, Stamps and Signatures.
> 
>          OK.
> 
>          What are you using for viewing?   And it's OK that the user 
> won't see the actual document - but instead, one that is modified?
> 
> 
>>I tried to use PdfStamper to
>>apply Watermark, the Watermark works fine but the Signatures become
invalid.
> 
>          Correct - as to be expected.
> 
> 
>>According to the requirement I need not display the Signatures, so instead
>>of displaying the document with Invalid signatures I am trying to remove
the
>>signatures.
>          But then how does the user know if the document has been 
> signed - or they don't care?
> 
> ------- 
> At the moment the users don't need care about whether the document is
> Signed or not, but they dont want to see an invalid signature, which
> creates unneccessary doubts about the document conents.
> 
> 
>          I would suggest doing a "form flattening" operation.  That 
> will flatten the signature out of the document (as an active element) 
> but leave the visual representation of the signature for viewing.
> 
> 
> Leonard
> 
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