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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Leonard Rosenthol > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chief Technical Officer <http://www.pdfsages.com> > PDF Sages, Inc. 215-938-7080 (voice) > 215-938-0880 (fax) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-remove-Signatures-from-PDF-tf1954616.html#a5374569 Sent from the iText - General forum at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
